8 Palace Gardens Terrace | W | 1864 Ap 20
Dear Tyndall
It would give me much pleasure to belong to the Philosophical Club.1 I got your letter2 at King’s College today.
Yours truly | J. Clerk Maxwell
P. M. Harman (ed), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), vol. 2, p. 226
Philosophical Club: Maxwell was indeed elected a member of the Philosophical Club of the RS in April 1864 (T. G. Bonney, Annals of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society, written from its Minute Book (London, Macmillan & Co., 1919), p. 57). For more about the club, see letter 2045, n. 3.
your letter: letter missing.
Please cite as “Tyndall2089,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on