Greenwich Hospital | 17th Oct. 1855.
My dear Sir,
Dr. Frankland is now at work on the Article for the Third Volume,1 he has referred me to works for wood-cuts – If you will kindly do the same I can then let you have proofs of the Cuts with your letter-press – I have sent the 1st and 2nd Vols. to the ‘Philosophical Mag.’ for review2 as you wished.
Yours faithfully | G. Hughes
Dr. Tyndall.
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Dr. Frankland … Article for the Third Volume: Frankland contributed six lessons on chemistry to E. Hughes (ed), Reading Lessons, Advanced Series. Third Book (London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1856), pp. 139–81.
‘Philosophical Mag.’ for review: Hughes’s Reading Lessons. First Book (London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855) was reviewed in Phil. Mag., 10 (1855), pp. 437–41. The anonymous review of Tyndall’s chapter began: ‘Professor Tyndall’s [lessons], on Natural Philosophy, are in every respect admirable. The style is attractive, lucid, and vigorous’ (p. 440).
Please cite as “Tyndall1147,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on