WCP4736

Letter (WCP4736.5092)

[1]

Reply to note.

9th. Feb 1867

My dear Wallace.

Could you & I work together at this question? Can the assessments & observations to which you refer1 be made by us two without the introduction of a third party?2

Yours very truly | John Tyndall3 [signature]

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[cross-reference to another letter]
2
Subject of this letter not identified; probably about spiritualism.
3
Tyndall, John (1820-1893). Irish physicist and mountaineer. Appointed Professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution in 1853, and Superintendent of the Royal Institution from the death of Michael Faraday in 1867 to his retirement in 1887. Also a member of the X Club with Thomas Henry Huxley and Joseph Dalton Hooker, among others, a private dining club founded in 1864 to advocate for the increased role of science in British society.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2013-05-13] Transcription checked by Barton, Michael [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP4736,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4736