
          
some interesting packages through him from De La Rive [de la Rive, Lucien]
of Geneva. He is about publishing a periodical
on the subject of Electricty and its kindred branches

I received a short time since a very interesting
letter from Berzelius acknowledging the receipt
of my papers which are to be inserted in the next
number of his year book of science. He describes

Dr John Torrey
Corner of Charlton
& Mc Dugall St
New.York

three new forms of galvanic batteries one of which
he says occupies but a part of a square foot of the
surface of the Lecturers table and produces more
effect than any instrument he has ever seen It
is on the principle of Groves battery the negative element
consisting of a preparation of coal. I intend to make one at
my earliest leisure

Yours as Ever
Joseph Henry

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