42 St. John’s Park Road | Haverstock Hill N.W. | Feb. 5/60.
My dear Tyndall
Herewith I enclose1 the promised experimental results. When my paper on the Air of Mont Blanc is printed,2 I will send you a copy: you ought to have come in to the Chemical3 & heard it, instead of listening for nearly 2 hours to the anything but sweet or honeyed liver-sugar controversy.4
In a recent experiment I found a candle to burn actually faster with the barometer at 9 inches than under atmospheric pressure. I am having an apparatus constructed to burn candles in air at 5 atmospheres.
Sincerely yours | E. Frankland.
RI MS JT/1/F/48
RI MS JT/1/TYP/12/3959
Herewith I enclose: not identified. LT added the note, ‘Sending experimental results on air’.
When my paper on the Air of Mont Blanc is printed: printed as E. Frankland ‘On the Composition of Air from Month Blanc’, Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London, 13 (1861), pp. 22–30.
the Chemical: The Chemical Society of London.
For nearly 2 hours to the anything but sweet or honeyed liver-sugar controversy: likely referring to the ongoing debate on the effect of sugar on the liver, and the manifestation of diabetes. It is uncertain what specific talk Frankland was referring to.
Please cite as “Tyndall1679,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on