Berlin Thursday.
Dear Sir.
It struck me yesterday that Dove and Knoblauch might like to see their names at the top of the page2 where their papers are inserted – This is only a conjecture but I think it’s a probable one – Would you therefore be kind enough to put their names there instead of mine – The title and the short introduction may remain as it is, only at the top of the page instead of ‘Tyndall on the Phy. Sciences’ put ‘Dove on the reversion-prism’ or something of the kind –
I start from Hamburg on Tuesday and hope to see you in two days afterwards.3
sincerely yours | J Tyndall
I saw Clausius yesterday eveng – he complains of Thomson having wronged him and feels himself compelled to reply. He will send you this shortly.4
Mr Adolph Schlagintweit is very anxious about some paper of his on the temperature of something5 – I forget what – Its a question however whether your anxiety about the matter [mounts] so high –
auf Wiedersehen
I have a paper ready which will take up about 25 sides of the magazine.6
Dr Francis &c &c | Red Lion Court | Fleet Street | London7
StBPL T&F, Authors’ letters
[19 June 1851]: the Thursday before Tyndall left Berlin (n. 3 below).
names at the top of the page: Tyndall included translations of two papers by Dove and one by Knoblauch in his ‘Reports on the Progress of the Physical Sciences’ (see letter 0484, n. 2). Francis acknowledged both authors and translator; in the published text, even pages had Tyndall’s name and odd pages the author’s name.
two days afterwards: Tyndall expected to leave Hamburg on 24 June (letter 0497), and therefore expected to see Francis in London on 26 June. On arrival, however, he went to Queenwood immediately and did not see Francis until he returned to London on his way to the Ipswich BAAS meeting (letter 0501).
Clausius will send you this shortly: ‘Reply to a Note from Mr. W. Thomson on the Effect of Fluid Friction, &c., appears in the June Number of the Philosophical Magazine’, Phil. Mag., 2:9 (August 1851), pp. 139–42. Several of Clausius’s texts published in the Phil. Mag. around this time reply to Thomson.
Mr Adolph ... of something: possibly ‘Untersuchungen über die Isogeothermen der Alpen’, Poggend. Annal., 153:7 (1849), pp. 305–56, or an extract from Studies on the Physical Geography of the Alps (Leipzig, 1850), as Hermann’s article was. No translation appeared in the Phil. Mag. A few days later Tyndall met Adolf and his older brother Hermann. He liked Hermann, but judged Adolph to be ‘very vain and very empty. When he speaks his lips are contracted to un-natural curves and his voices, which nature intended of course to be the instrument of thought is only used to make a noise. He seems to like to hear himself speak, regardless of whether what he says is to the purpose or not. He requested me to present his compliments to Faraday, to Sir Roderick Murchison, to Sir John Herschell, and other scientific aristocratic phenomena. Did I come into close contact with the young gentleman I should surely tell him a bit of my mind’ (Journal, 22 June, JT/2/13b/548–9). See also letters 0470, nn. 13 and 14, and 0474, n. 5.
paper ready … about 25 sides: ‘On Diamagnetism and Magnecrystallic Action’, Phil. Mag., 2:10 (September 1851), pp. 165–88 (i.e., 24 pp.). He conducted the research for this paper while in Berlin; five days previously (letter 0498) he had told Hirst the material was ‘quarried out’. Perhaps he completed the writing before leaving Berlin. The material was the basis of his BAAS presentation of the same title (cited letter 0501, n. 3).
Dr Francis … London: address from envelope.
Please cite as “Tyndall0498,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 5 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0498