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NOVEMBER 1835. 



XXXVII. Reply to Dr. John Davy's " Remarks on certain 

 Statements of Mr. Faraday contained in his i Researches in 

 Electricity:" ByMicuAELFARADAY 9 D.C.L. F.R.S.$c.$c* 



To Richard Phillips, Esq. 



My dear Phillips, 

 "Y^OU know as well as most persons how great my dislike 

 ■*- is to controversy, but you also know that upon some rare 

 occasions I have been driven into it ; an occasion of this kind 

 constrains me at present to ask a favour of you.. On the 22nd 

 of January of this year, two papers were read at the Royal 

 Society, the first entitled " Remarks on certain Statements of 

 Mr. Faraday contained in the Fourth and Fifth Series of his Ex- 

 perimental Researches in Electricity," by Dr. Davy ; the se- 

 cond, " A Note in reference to the preceding Observations," by 

 myself. These the Royal Society did not think fit to publish 

 in the Philosophical Transactions, but the notice of the read- 

 ings appears in the c Proceedings' of the Society, No. 19, and 

 in your Philosophical Magazine, April 1835, page 301. 



I now find that Dr. Davy has published his paper in the last 

 number of the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, p. 317. 

 I was in hopes that if that paper appeared in print mine might 

 have immediately followed it ; and meeting Dr. Davy in the 

 Royal Institution in May last, asked him to do me the favour 

 to allow that to be the case : this, I presume for good reasons, 

 (which, however, I do not understand,) he declined. I am 

 thus placed in a difficult position ; for, however willing Pro- 



* See Jameson's Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, October 1835, 

 p. 317-325. 



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