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Document number: 386
Date: 12 Sep 1871
Harold White: 12 Sep 1871
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TAIT Peter Guthrie
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

12/9/71

My dear Mr Talbot,

Your paper was read, and will be printed in extenso <1> with the exception of your apologies at the beginning.

I was greatly delighted with the whole proceedings in Section A, <2> and we had something like 16 Senior & Second Wranglers or Smith’s Prizemen – Adams, Cayley, Stokes, Sylvester, Maxwell, Challis, Kelland, Hon. J.W. Strutt, Wilson, Hopkinson, Glaisker &c &c &c Colding of Copenhagen & Bierens de Haan were my guests.

I gave them a discourse on Thermoelectric Currents, and a Second provisional Report on Thermal Conductivity.

St Claire Deville <3> has kindly undertaken to make wires of Nickel & Cobalt for me.

Yours truly

P.G. Tait


Notes:

1. At full length.

2. This would have been the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Edinburgh in 1871.

3. Probably Henri-Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818–1881), chemist.

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