20th. Feb. 1858
My dear Sir
I return one of Mr Matthiessen’s2 papers.3 It contains the results of experiments on the electric conductivity of a great number of bodies. These results are undoubtedly valuable, and the Philosophical Transactions would, in my opinion be the proper place for recording them
very truly yours | John Tyndall
I hope to send on the second paper4 very soon.
RS RR/3/197 Tyndall 20 February 1858
[George Gabriel Stokes]: this letter is attributed to George Gabriel Stokes by its relation to letter 1498.
Mr Matthiessen’s: Augustus Matthiessen (1831–70), a British physicist and chemist, educated in Germany, who worked with Robert Bunsen (ODNB)
paper: A. Matthiessen, ‘On the Electric Conducting Power of the Metals’, Phil. Trans., 148 (1858), pp. 383–7.
second paper: A. Matthiessen, ‘On the Thermo-electric Series’, Phil. Trans., 148 (1858), pp. 369–81.
Please cite as “Tyndall1495,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on