7th Dec. 1863
My dear Stokes,
Though I cannot say that I have read the paper of Messrs. Mattheissen & Vogt1 very critically still the inspection that I have made of it and the faith that I have in the trustworthiness of its authors, induces me to recommend it for publication in the Philosophical Transactions.
The subject of the paper is important, and the determinations contained in it will be of permanent value to scientific progress.
Yours very truly | John Tyndall
1863 | Matthiessen | by | Tyndall
RS RR/5/149 Tyndall 7 December 1863
paper of Messrs. Mattheissen & Vogt: Augustus Matthiessen (1831–70), a British chemist and physicist, obtained his PhD at Giessen and later worked with Bunsen in Heidelburg, and, by the time of this letter, was lecturer on Chemistry at St. Mary’s Hospital (ODNB). Karl [Carl] Christoph Vogt (1817–95), a German scientist, philosopher, and politician who lived in Switzerland (HLS). The paper referred to is: A. Matthiessen and C. Vogt, ‘On the influence of temperature on the electric conducting-power of alloys’, Phil. Trans., 154 (1864), pp. 167–200.
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