19th Feb. 1858
Dear Sir.
The enquiry to which you refer2 will I hope be printed in fall in the Philosophical Transactions—Next week however I hope to have in my possession an abstract of the lecture referred to in the Athenaeum.3 It will give me pleasure to send you a copy as soon as I am in a position to do so.
Very sinc[ere]ly yours | John Tyndall | Thanks for your paper.4
Royal College of Physicians
unidentified: possibly William Brinton (1823–67), Robert Liveing (1834–1919), Francis Sibson (1814–76), or Hermann Weber (1823–1918), physicians, Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, avid mountaineers, and members of the Alpine Club (ODNB). See also G. H. Brown, Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 10 vols (London: Royal College of Physicians, 1955–2000), vol. 4 (1825–1925).
enquiry to which you refer: probably J. Tyndall, ‘On Some Physical Properties of Ice’, Phil. Trans., 148 (1858), pp. 211–29.
an abstract of the lecture referred to in the Athenaeum: on 30 January 1858 the Athenaeum printed an account of Tyndall’s 22 January lecture at the RI, ‘On Some Physical Properties of Ice’. See ‘Royal Institution’, Athenaeum, 1579 (30 January 1858), p. 150. The lecture was printed as J. Tyndall, ‘On Some Physical Properties of Ice’, Roy. Inst. Proc., 2 (1854–8), pp. 454–77.
your paper: not identified.
Please cite as “Tyndall1494,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on