17th June 1859
My dear Sir
I hope you will excuse my tardiness in replying to your last note.2 Through a change of home which compelled me to pack up all my books the notes of my lectures in which the experiments you refer to3 were made have gone out of my reach, and I have been hunting through various periodicals since, but as yet without success; to find the paper containing the original experiment. I hope however to find it for you before the week ends and will at once send it to you.
most truly yours | John Tyndall4
University of St Andrews Special Collections, msdep7: Incoming letters 1859, no.76.
Recipient determined through letters 1625 and 1627.
your last note: note missing.
the experiments you refer to: likely refers to Tyndall’s experiments on ice and glacial motion, see also letter 1594, n. 2 and 3.
A note was added at the end of the letter, likely by Forbes, ‘Dr Tyndall | June/59 | About Page’s | Exp[erimen]t on Vibration’.
Please cite as “Tyndall1624,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on