The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862 : with notes, comments and references to contemporary letters / edited by Georg W.A. Kahlbaum and Francis V. Darbishire.
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862 : with notes, comments and references to contemporary letters / edited by Georg W.A. Kahlbaum and Francis V. Darbishire. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![extent we hav^e accomplished what we attempted the reader must decide. I am however most happy to acknowledge the ser\'ices rendered by Mr. Francis V. Darbishirc, who joined me when a considerable amount of the work had been carried out, and who, following up the subject with the greatest skill, also added many a valuable comment to the part already finished. The story of the origin and progress of this publication is as follows. These letters were among the first material I received for the life of Schoenbein which I am now in the act of compiling. Miss Jane Barnard, Faraday's niece, very kindly sent me that portion of the correspondence which was in her possession, and to this Scha^nbein's family added the share written by Farada}'. This took place in the autumn of the year 1897. On glancing over these letters and finding out what a really important part they played in the development of the historj' of science in the middle of our century, 1 immediately decided on ]:)u])lishing them in full. To this end copies of the letters had to be taken, and it was Dr. Friedrich 'I'schopp-Muller, j^rofessor of Mathe- matics and Physics at the Academv here, and for man}^ years m}' fellow-worker, who took upon himself this tedious work, and carried it through with so much care and indefati- gable attention that I must express to him my heartiest grati- tude. Without such assistance, owing to my numerous professional duties, the edition could not have been completed at the appointed time. To ascertain the correctness of the reading, I read the original and Dr. Tschopp followed his copy, comparing word for word. It required much persevercncc on the part of us two Germans in order to deci])her Farada>''s all but illegible scrawls. What an Englishman can make out without much effort, is very](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2192899x_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
