To Thomas Archer Hirst

My dear Tom.

It may gratify you to learn that your paper to the R.S. has been read1 and I this day saw the proof of it printed2 – it has been printed entire.

John | Wednesday,

RI MS JT/1/T/609

your paper to the R.S. has been read: read at the RS meeting on 21 June 1855, during Tyndall’s absence from London; see letter 1058, n. 3.

the proof of it printed: by the firm of Taylor and Francis. However, its publication in Roy. Soc. Proc. would not take place for some months.

Please cite as “Tyndall1115,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/tyndall/letters/Tyndall1115