The Royal Society | Burlington House, London W. | 19 Jan[uar]y 1865
Dear Tyndall,
I read your letter1 dated July 1, 1864 to the Gov[ermen]t Grant Committee2 on the first possible opportunity, namely yesterday.
In it you ask permission to apply the balance (₤25-19-4 ½) remaining in your hands from the Grants of 1861 and 18633 to certain measurements which you proposed to take in the Alps in case you thought the money could thus be turned to good account.
The Committee were willing that it should be so expended.
Yours very truly | G. G. Stokes.
RI MS JT/1/S/240
RI MS JT/1/TYP/4/1399
your letter: letter missing.
Gov[ernmen]t Grant Committee: the Government Grant Committee of the RS was established in 1849 for the purpose of granting funds to researchers. On the Government Grants, see M. Boas Hall, All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002 [1984]), chapters 5 and 6; and R. M. MacLeod, ‘The Royal Society and the Government Grant: Notes on the Administration of Scientific Research, 1849–1914’, The Historical Journal, 14 (1971), pp. 323–58..
the Grants of 1861 and 1863: in 1861, Tyndall received £200 for his experiments on radiant heat and a further grant in 1863.
Please cite as “Tyndall2218,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on