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Memoires of Old Friends, Extracts From Journals and Letters, 1835 to 1871, Ed. by H.n. Pym
Memoires of Old Friends Extracts From Journals and Letters 1835 to 1871 Ed by Hn Pym Author:Caroline Fox General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. 1838. " The names she loved to hear, Have been carved for many a year, On the Tomb." -- O. W. Holmes. Chap, 1v. Paris, April 2. -- Papa enjoyed his morning at the Academy, of 1838. which Becquerel is President.1 Our fellow-traveller, the Magnetic zfat, 10. Deflector, excited strong interest; even Gamby admitted, though unwillingly, the superiority of papa's method of suspension. There was a brilliant and very kindly assemblage of savants. Becquerel called the next day, and was delighted by a further examination of the instrument; and when papa showed him the clay with a vein in it galvanically inserted, he not only did not doubt the originality of the experiment (which H has accused papa of borrowing from Becquerel), but it was not until after a full discussion and a thorough cross-examination of the Fact, that he could even admit it. He then made papa draw in his pocket-book the precise manner in which his " experiences " had been pursued, the relative position of wires, pots, and pans, with the intention of repeating it all himself. Nothing could be more satisfactory than the interview and conversation between these supposed rivals. April 4. -- Papa and Uncle Charles spent the morning most pleasantly at Arago's.2 During their merry breakfast the "toujours philosophe -- is a fool" was the accepted motto. Arago pleaded guilty to the definition of Tories imputed to him in England, whichoriginated, he said, in a conversation between Lord Brougham and Chap. 1v. himself on the doctrine of final causes. A noted Tory was referred lB38 to, and the question started as to his final caus...« less