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Sir Wm. Thomson and Maxwell's Electro-magnetic Theory of Light

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SHORTLY after writing my former letter I saw a copy of the verbatim report of Sir Wm. Thomson's lectures in Baltimore, and would have written to you to that effect and to apologise to Mr. Forbes for having doubted the accuracy of what I thought was his report, only that I met him in London about that time, and he then desired me not to do so. Sir William Thomson has now himself stated that the passage is correctly quoted, and I can only regret that he has expressed himself in the way he did.

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FITZGERALD, G. Sir Wm. Thomson and Maxwell's Electro-magnetic Theory of Light. Nature 32, 4–5 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032004b0

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