BIB_ID
196457
Accession number
MA 14384
Creator
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1861 January 7
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Embossed seal of the Royal Institute at head of sheet.
Faraday, a Professor of Chemistry, had his photograph taken on a visit to Christ Church by Dodgson at about this time.
Formerly cataloged as a letter from C.W. Faraday.
Faraday, a Professor of Chemistry, had his photograph taken on a visit to Christ Church by Dodgson at about this time.
Formerly cataloged as a letter from C.W. Faraday.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking Dodgson for sending him "a result of your photographic work" (i.e. a portrait of Faraday taken by Dodgson) and addressing some questions previously posed by Dodgson concerning the nature of "capillary attraction" as it applies to candle wicks, ammonia as a byproduct of decay in cheese ("The ammonia comes from the cheese evolved by a slow action analogous to decay. You may see the attempts to explain it in the various works on Organic chemistry"), and the possibility that the sun emits fire ("It has not as yet been clearly proved that the Sun does put a fire out - but such a power has been supposed to exist in the actinic rays which the luminary sends forth"); letter concludes "I do not know 'Euere d'or fin."
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