21st. Oct. 1857. | Royal Institution of Great Britain [stamped]
My dear Sir
I regret much that the great length of time occupied in the printing of the accompanying paper1 has prevented me from complying sooner with your request2 to have a copy of it.
It was with much concern that I learned from Balmat3 & others that you were prevented by the delicate state of your health from visiting the Mer de Glace4 this year, and I should be truly rejoiced to learn that your strength is now restored. For six weeks last summer I was a sojourner at the Montanvert,5 and thus augmented, in some measure, the scanty acquaintanceship with glaciers which I had previously possessed.
Will you allow me to say that the increased knowledge thus obtained, and the recent perusal of the works of others upon the same subject, have only served to enhance the high estimate which I had formed of your labours; and if I should finally differ from you on any point, I hope you will find it to be in a spirit not inconsistent with my conviction of the general excellence of your investigations.
Believe me dear Sir | most faithfully yours | John Tyndall
Dr Tyndall | Oct 1857 | His visit to Mont Anvert6
StA JDF Incoming letters 1857, no. 85
the accompanying paper: J. Tyndall and T. H. Huxley, ‘On the Structure and Motion of Glaciers’, Phil. Trans., 147 (1857), pp. 327–46.
your request: see letter 1349.
Balmat: Auguste Balmat.
Mer de Glace: see letter 1306, n. 12.
Montanvert: see letter 1415, n. 15.
Dr Tyndall | Oct 1857 | His visit to Mont Anvert: in Forbes’s writing on the outside of the letter.
Please cite as “Tyndall1446,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on