| Description | After personal remarks, Herschel writes that on Friday he went to Chevalier Bunsen's fourth conference on the alphabet at which two German professors argued without a result. The conference before 'Wheatstone brought his talking machine, and Herschel gives an account of it, with Darwin's proposition to have 'a huge one to go by steam and roar out orders in battles'. He outlines arrangements for photographs to be sent, perhaps with other parcels of dresses. He saw [Charles] Pritchard and Alex [Alexander Stewart Herschel] at the [Royal] Institution on Friday, when [William Robert] Grove gave an unintelligible lecture on electricity, with fine experiments. Pritchard noted that Willy Duncan had passed Addiscombe creditably. |