Board of Trade | 29th. Oct. 1852.
My dear Tyndall
I was sorry to see today in the paper1 that the Professorship in the Galway College has been filled up, Mr Stoney appears to have had Lord Rosse’s2 interest and that was too powerful to contend against, otherwise I think there would have been little doubt of your success. Your application with the testimonials brought forward will pave the way in the event of another vacancy occurring. Mrs Wynne will be greatly disappointed when I tell her this evening on my return home of your having failed in Galway,
most sincerely yours | Geo Wynne
RI MS JT/1/T/5553
the paper: we can find no such news item, either in the Times (the Digital Archive) or any other London newspaper of this date.
Lord Rosse: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–67), Irish astronomer, who served as President of the RS from 1848–54. He built a large observatory and supporting workshop on the family estate.
JT/1/T/555: original missing; transcription is from the copy Tyndall wrote out and sent to Hirst in letter 0681 and Francis in letter 0682.
Please cite as “Tyndall0679,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall0679