SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE. | RAY-TRANSMUTATION.
Athenaeum Club, 2nd April.
THROUGH the kindness of its author, I have this day become acquainted with Dr. Akin’s communication to THE READER of the 26th of September, 1863.1 From conversations with Professor Stokes I had obtained a general notion of the experiments in which Dr. Akin has been for some time engaged; but I now learn that, on one of the points touched upon in the report of my last investigation—the proposed explanation, namely of the glowing of a platinum wire in a hydrogen flame—he has anticipated me by several months.
JOHN TYNDALL.
The Reader, 461 (1864), p. 461
THE READER of the 26th of September, 1863: see letter 2075, n. 2. Also see letters 2076, 2079, 2165, 2167, and 2170, as well as the introductory essay to this volume.
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