College, Edinburgh, | Novr. 26th. 1860.
My dear Sir,
The enclosed note from Dr. Andrews2 will inform you of my desire to be permitted to trouble you at some future time with a question which can only (if at all) be answered by experience such as yours. It relates to the Optical effects of Magnetism - but, on account of the arduous duties of my new position, my experiments have not yet been so far extended as to enable me to put it very definitely.
Meanwhile I venture to ask you to be kind enough to read at your leisure the latter part of my Inaugural Address, a copy of which you will receive with this, and to inform me whether you consider that I have fairly presented the point at issue between you and the pure mathematicians as to the Conservation of Force3.
Believe me to be | Very sincerely yours | Peter G. Tait.
M. Faraday Esqr. D.C.L.
TAIT, Peter Guthrie (1860): The Position and Prospects of Physical Science. A Public Inaugural Lecture delivered on November 7, 1860, Edinburgh.
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