Royal Institution, | Oct. 31, 1854.
My dear Tyndall,
I send the enclosed letter2 from MM. Van Breda3 and Logeman4 to you as an Editor of the Philosophical Magazine. If you should judge it proper for insertion in that Journal, I shall be very happy to see it there, but will beg you to accompany it on my part with the observation that it is not so conclusive in proving the negative (a thing very difficult to do) as to move me at present from the reserved condition of mind which I have recently expressed in respect of this matter.
Ever yours truly, | M. Faraday
MM. Van Breda and Logeman, ‘On the Conductibility of Liquids for Electricity’, Phil. Trans. 8:54 (1854), p. 465.
Faraday Correspondence, 4:2915
From Michael Faraday: this letter was originally published in the Phil. Mag.
the enclosed letter: this is a letter that was published in MM. Van Breda and Logeman, ‘On the Conductibility of Liquids for Electricity’, Phil. Trans. 8:54 (1854), pp. 465–69. It was also published in Faraday Correspondence, 4:2893.
Van Breda: Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda (1788–1867), a Dutch biologist and geologist who worked on magnetism and electricity in his role as director of the Physics Cabinet of the Teylers Museum in Harrlem, Netherlands.
Logeman: Wilhelm Martin Logeman (1821–94), a Dutch scientific instrument maker in Haarlem, Netherlands (see Faraday Correspondence, 4, p. lviii).
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