Edinburgh | 6 March 1857
Dr Tyndall | London
My dear Sir
I received lately the number of the Proceedings of the Royal Society containing an abstract of a paper on glaciers1 by you & Mr Huxley. I am desirous of making some remarks on several parts of this paper; but I should prefer doing so were there a prospect of seeing it published in detail.2 Will you be so good as to let me know whether it is to be printed; & if so will you oblige me by sending me a copy of it as early as convenient?
I remain dear Sir | Yours truly | James D. Forbes.
RI MS JT/1/F/31
RI MS JT/1/TYP/1/3941
an abstract of a paper on glaciers: J. Tyndall, ‘Observations on Glaciers’, Roy. Soc. Proc., 8 (1856), pp. 331–8.
prospect of seeing it published in detail: see letter 1350 for Tyndall’s reply. The paper was published in full as J. Tyndall and T. H. Huxley, ‘On the Structure and Motion of Glaciers’, Phil. Trans., 147 (1857), pp. 327–46.
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