Cavendish Club | Regent Street | Monday
Dr. Akin presents his compliments to Professor Tyndall, and having seen in the last number of the Reader2 an account of his late communications to the Royal Society and at the Royal Institution, in which he observes reference has been made to his own attempts on the subject of the converse phenomenon of Fluorescence, he begs leave to enclose to him the proof sheets of his introductory paper on the subject,3 now printing in the Reports of the British Association, and of which hitherto extracts only have been published
Dr. Akin, being now in town for a short time, would gladly avail himself of this opportunity to call on Prof. Tyndall, and to have the pleasure of making his acquaintance, if it was convenient for him to see him.
RI MS JT/1/TYP/1/59
LT Typescript Only
[March 1864]: from the month and year are given based on Tyndall’s description of this letter in J. Tyndall, ‘On the History of Calorescence’, Phil. Mag., 29 (1865), pp. 218–31.
the Reader: this was published in the 26 September 1863 issue of The Reader (vol. 2, no. 39). It was later published, with some additions in brackets, as C. K. Akin, ‘On Calcescence’, Phil. Mag., 29 (1865), pp. 28–43.
his introductory paper on the subject: enclosure missing, but presumably C. K. Akin, ‘Account of Preliminary Experiments on Calcescence’, Brit. Assoc. Report (1863), p. 11.
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