Gand, 30 Septembre 1863
Mon cher Monsieur Tyndall,
J’ai l’honneur de vous adresser des exemplaires de trois notes dont deux publiées par moi et une par mon fils; ces exemplaires sont en triple. Veuillez, pour chaque note, accepter le premier, et offrir le second à la Société Royale et le troisième à l’Institution Royale.
Depuis nos anciennes relations, j’ai continué l’étude du liquide glycérique et c’est seulement à présent que je suis sur le point de l’avoir terminée; la chose n’était pas facile, je vous assure.
Agréez, mon cher M. Tyndall, l’assurance de tous mes sentiments d’affection | J. Plateau
Ghent, September 30th 1863
My dear Mr Tyndall,
I have the honour of enclosing copies of three notes,1 two of which were published by me and one by my son.2 Those copies are in triplicate. For each note, please accept the first, offer the second to the Royal Society, and the third to the Royal Institution.
Since we last communicated, I have continued the study of the glycerol liquid and it is only now that I am at the point of completion. The thing was not [easy], I assure you.
Please accept, my dear Mr Tyndall, the assurance of my warmest regards. | J. Plateau
RI MS JT/1/P/95
three notes: not identified. Both Plateau and his son published numerous papers between 1842 and 1868 that he assembled in 1873 in his massive work, J. Plateau, Statique experimentale et theorique des liquides soumis aux seules forces moleculaires, 2 vols (Gand et Leipzig: F. Clemm, 1873). The one by his son is possibly: F. Plateau, ‘Sur un mode particulier de production de bulles de savon’, Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, 13 (1862), pp. 286–8.
by my son: Félix Auguste Joseph Plateau (1841–1911), who after graduating from the University of Ghent became a notable physician. He is most well-known for his researches in anatomy and zoology (CDSB).
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