Queenwood 17th Oct. 1852.
My dear Francis.
I want you to do two favours for me:
No 1. To send me Ann. du chim. et du Phys. 56. At page 371 there is an account of Peltier’s experiment1 which I want to see
No 2. To send me Pogg. 44. At page 342 there is an account of a repetition of Peltiers experiment by Lenz.2
I will return these to you without delay. I have already a good many nos. beside me but am just waiting to get done with the subject to which they refer; when this is accomplished I will send them to you at once,
I intended yesterday to enquire whether you would think it well to publish a reply to Adie3 side by side with his remarks in the next no. but as it is full the reply may remain over.
I have already sent one paper in to the Royal Society & hope that it will appear in the next vol. of the Transactions.4
Bence Jones has written to me to enquire whether I could be induced to undertake the translation of the Physics of Liebigs Bericht.5 I shall probably do a small portion of it. He also has kindly mentioned me as likely to deliver a good course of lectures at the Royal Institution; and asks me6 whether I would not undertake to deliver one some Friday evening before or after Easter – I have sent [in] an affirmative reply. So that after Christmas I hope to hold forth some evening.
I will get Helmholtz ready, but the 9th number has not reached me – I will throw the papers into the form of a Report7 and perhaps say a word or two introductory.
most sincerely yours | John Tyndall
Success to the Memoirs!8
StBPL T&F, Authors’ letters
At page 371 there is an account of Peltier’s experiment: C. Peltier, ‘Nouvelles expériences sur la caloricité des courants électrique’, Annal. Chim. et Phys., 56 (1834), pp. 371–86.
a repetition of Peltiers experiment by Lenz: H. Lenz, ‘Einige Versuche im Gebiete des Galvanismus’ Poggend. Annal., 44:6 (1838), pp. 342–9.
reply to Adie: concerning the ongoing disagreement about the absorption of heat at a bismuth antimony joint. Adie’s paper was published in November (cited letter 0670, n. 1) and Tyndall’s reply in December (see letter 0685).
next vol. of the Transactions: Tyndall’s first publication in the Phil. Trans. appeared in the 1853 volume (cited letter 0606, n. 1).
written to me … Liebig’s Bericht: see letter 0671.
asks me: letter missing. Tyndall received it on 16 October (see letter 0673, n. 11 and letter 0675).
Helmholtz … form of a Report: as the following letter makes clear, Tyndall planned to translate papers by Helmholtz from numbers 8 and 9 of Poggend. Annal. (H. Helmholtz, ‘Ueber Hrn. D. Brewster's neue Analyse des Sonnenlichts’, Poggend. Annal., 86:8 (1852), pp. 501–23 and H. Helmholtz, ‘Ueber die Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben’, Poggend. Annal., 87:9 (1852), pp. 45–66). Tyndall reported his plans differently to Francis and, in the following letter, to Hirst. Here he proposes to summarise Helmholtz’s articles in a ‘Report on the State of the Physical Sciences’; there he plans two full translations. The latter plan was adopted (see letter 0673, n. 15).
Memoirs: see letter 0656, n. 4.
Please cite as “Tyndall0672,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0672