Geological Society of Dublin, | Trinity College. | 14 Dec. 1857.
My dear Sir,
I have prepared four good diagrams and a map to illustrate my paper on the ‘Cleavage and Joint Planes of the Old Red Limestone conglomerate of the Co. Waterford’.1
My paper itself is nearly ready but I fear will not be finished before Christmas; I must be in London myself before 18th Jan., for the Artillery Examination;2 would it answer to bring my paper and diagrams to you at that time myself.
I have many Tables in my paper, and some easy Mechanical work based on 345 accurate observations. As you know more of the Royal Society than I do, perhaps you would kindly give me a hint as to the length of my paper; I mean as to whether I should condense greatly; or draw my inferences freely.
I am, | Yours very sincerely | Saml. Haughton.
John Tyndall Esq.
RI MS JT/1/TYP/2/486
LT Typescript Only
my paper on the ‘Cleavage and Joint Planes of the Old Red Limestone conglomerate of the Co. Waterford’: see letter 1449, n. 6.
Artillery Examination: at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, Haughton had taught classes in scientific subjects to prepare students for becoming commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. Haughton, with Joseph Allen Galbraith (1819–90), professor of natural and experimental philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, also wrote a series of scientific and mathematical textbooks (the Galbraith and Haughton Scientific Manuals) which were widely employed in schools training young men for military service. See N. D. McMillan, ‘Samuel Haughton, 1821–1897,’ in Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker, eds., Physicists of Ireland: Passion and Precision (Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003), pp. 106–15, on p. 107–8; and M. De Arce, P. Wyse-Jackson, and N. McMillan, ‘Patriotism, pedagogy and profit: Galbraith and Haughton’s Mathematical Series (1851-91)’, History Ireland 23:2 (2015), pp. 26–9.
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