From Emil du Bois-Reymond   April 27, 1852

At Dr Bence Jones’, | 30 Grosvenor str., | Grosvenor Square | April 27, 1852.

Dear1 Dr Tyndall,

Your prophecy has become true! Not a year is elapsed since2 and now I am in London. Last Christmass, Dr. Jones3 went over to Berlin to see my experiments and he invited me to stay with his family in London as many weeks as I should like. So I am here and already introduced to the managers of the Royal Institution where I propose to show some experiments.4 I do not know if you will be able to come to the town within these next three or four weeks. Should you be so then I hope I will be so happy as to see you again. At all events I was anxious to give you intelligence of my arrival in England. I am,

dear Sir, | yours, | very truly, | E. du Bois-Reymond

RI MS JT/1/M/145

1

Dear: du Bois-Reymond was writing in English, rather than his native German.

2

since: since Tyndall and du Bois-Reymond were together in Berlin.

3

Dr. Jones: Henry Bence Jones.

4

the Royal Institution ... some experiments: du Bois-Reymond had arrived in England on 26 April. He gave private demonstrations of his experiments at the RI before delivering a lecture ‘On Muscles’ on Tuesday 25 May (see Gabriel Finkelstein, Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013), pp. 132–3). Tyndall had performed these experiments in Berlin in 1851 (see letter 0480).

Please cite as “Tyndall0622,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 6 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0622