Feb. 17. 1853.
Dear Dr. Tyndall,
I had not time to tell you more about the London Institution I will send your letter1 to Mr Tite.2
The audience is much the same or not quite so good as the Royal Institution. Playfair is lecturing there now and the vacancy offered3 to you is caused by Dr Mantell’s death.4 Grove gave his insulation lectures5 there.
I am stopped and must end.
Yours very truly | H. Bence Jones.
RI MS JT/1/TYP/2/671
LT Typescript Only
your letter: letter missing.
Mr Tite: William Tite (1798–1873), architect and antiquarian, was the honorary secretary of the London Institution from 1824 to 1869 (ODNB).
vacancy offered: Tyndall noted that Bence Jones was authorized to offer him the opportunity to give four lectures for a total of twenty guineas (see letter 0713, n. 13).
Dr Mantell’s death: Gideon Mantell (1790–1852), a surgeon and geologist, who had been lecturing at the London Institution died on 10 November 1852.
insulation lectures: Grove gave a series of six lectures ‘On the Correlation of Physical Forces’ in November and December 1843, which were later published by the Institution (W. Grove, On the Correlation of Physical Forces: being the Substance of a Course of Lectures delivered in the London Institution in the Year 1843 [London: Samuel Highley, 1846]). See M. L. Cooper and V. M. D. Hall, ‘William Grove and the London Institution, 1841–1845’, Annals of Science 39:3 (1982), pp. 229–54, on pp. 247–8.
Please cite as “Tyndall0715,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on