18 July 1850 | 4 Castle St | Edinburgh.
Sir
Your notice of a paper on the Magneto-Optical properties of Crystals1 has been handed to me by Prof. Kelland.2 As the paper is printed you wish of course to give an Abstract of it perhaps to illustrate by diagrams or experiments. To read a printed Memoir would be somewhat out of course. I advise you to make an abstract of the main points3 & to prepare some illustrations if needed. The subject is curious & there will be persons here worthy of some pains being taken to make the paper satisfactory. It is better to send it before the Meeting,4 but not absolutely demanded5
Yours very truly | John Phillips | Assistt Genl Secretary
RI MS JT/1/P/82
paper on … Crystals: his recent paper, co-authored with Knoblauch, published in the Phil. Mag. (cited letter 0403, n. 2).
Prof. Kelland: Philip Kelland (1808–79), Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, was one of the local secretaries for the 1850 BAAS meeting.
I advise … the main points: Tyndall followed this advice (Journal, 23 July, JT/2/13b/503).
Meeting: The BAAS meeting held, 1–7 August, in Edinburgh.
It is better … demanded: Tyndall did send a copy of his paper to Phillips before the meeting (Journal, 7 August, JT/2/13b/503).
Please cite as “Tyndall0415,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 1 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0415