Lensfield Cottage | Cambridge | March 12th 1859
My dear Dr Tyndall,
My wife charged me most particularly to thank you for the ticket, or rather order, you were so kind as to send her for your lecture.1 She would have been very glad to have gone if it had been in her power. I intended to have thanked you viva voce but both last Thursday and the Thursday before other things put it out of my head when I saw you.
I have received a paper from Dr Robinson2 “On the stratification of the electric light” for the Phil. Mag.3 It will occupy 7 pages in print. I mention it now that you may expect it. I keep it for the present to read more carefully as it is a subject I have thought a good deal about. I intend to post it so as to arrive in London on Monday Morn[ing]g. I will address it to you at the Royal Institution.
Yours very truly | G. G. Stokes.
RI MS JT/1/S/220
RI MS JT/1/TYP/4/1363
your lecture: Tyndall gave a series of 12 lectures on the Force of Gravity at the RI. Stokes is likely referring to the lecture Tyndall gave on 3 March rather than 10 March 1859, given that Stokes noted that he previously intended to thank Tyndall for the ticket.
Dr Robinson: Thomas Romney Robinson (1793–1882), astronomer and physicist. The Robinson anemometer is named after him (ODNB).
a paper from Dr Robinson “On the stratification of the electric light” for the Phil. Mag: this paper was published as T. R. Robinson, ‘XLII. On the Stratification of Electric Light’, Phil. Mag., 17 (1859), pp. 269–74.
Please cite as “Tyndall1598,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on