Abstract
MARTIN has brought to a brilliantly successful conclusion his editorial work on the laboratory notes which we have all learned to call “Faraday's Diary”, and it is possible now to look over the whole massive achievement, from the innocent opening entry of September 1820— “AKTIFICIAL CAMPHOR. Rather heavier than water when fused—requires a higher heat than 212° for its volatilisation readily fuses and is not so volatile as the new substance—burns with bright flame”, to the prophetic last sentences of March 12, 1862.
Faraday's Diary:
being the various Philosophical Notes of Experimental Investigation made by Michael Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S., during the years 1820–1862 and bequeathed by him to the Royal Institution of Great Britain; now, by order of the Managers, printed and published for the first time, under the editorial supervision of Thomas Martin. Vol. 7: Nov. 24, 1855-Mar. 12, 1862. Pp. xvii + 465 + 2 plates. Index. Pp. 64. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1936.) 7 vols. and Index, £12 12s. 0d. net.
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F., A. Faraday's Diary. Nature 137, 295–296 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137295a0
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