28th Feb. 1855
My dear Frankland.
I am much obliged to you for your valuable hints regarding the application of collodion balloons.1 I never saw the experiment you describe, but shall make it on the first suitable occasion – Meanwhile I shall thank you to let me know how the balloons are made.
Hughes has not yet struck off the final sheets of his first books2 – My article is wrong in various places, the grouping of the crystals3 was wrong – the printer having contrived to make my description of rock crystal refer to a group of alum crystals – I have altered this and other matters which will be corrected before the book is published.
When may we expect to have your paper at the Royal Society? – I must contrive to be present when it is read.4 We have given a translation of a good paper of Bunsen5 in the last & present number of the Phil. Mag.
I often wish to have you or some other first rate chemist near me – I would persecute you with questions on these and other matters – they interest me much – Kind regards to Mrs Frankland –
Ever yours | J Tyndall
I sent you a scrap6 on a curious subject which I hope you will have patience to read
JRL Frankland, 191
hints … collodion balloons: see letter 1046, n. 4.
his first books: see volume 4, letter 1002, n. 4.
the grouping of the crystals: Tyndall does not refer to the grouping of crystals in the published volume.
when it is read: Tyndall was present when Frankland’s paper, ‘Researches on Organo-metallic Bodies’ was read at the RS on 15 March 1855. A summary was subsequently published in Roy. Soc. Proc., 7 (1854–5), pp. 303–6, and the full version in Phil. Trans., 145 (1855), pp. 259–75.
a good paper of Bunsen: Robert Bunsen, ‘On the Law of Absorption of Gases’, Phil. Mag., 9 (1855): pp. 116–30 and 181–201.
a scrap: not located.
Please cite as “Tyndall1049,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on