Intéressante lettre scientifique de Humphry Davy au chimiste anglais Samuel Parkes

Belle lettre scientifique d'Humphry Davy, alors président de la Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, adressée au chimiste Samuel Parkes.

"I have received your paper which I have read with much pleasure it containing very interesting details on an important manufacture ; I would however be happy to communicate any paper of yours to the Royal Society which I think would not be ordered to be presented by the council : and it is not our (?) to present papers unless they contain some experimental research or actuel discovery.

When your analysis of the (Renan ?) is finished I would be very glad to see it : as such an experimental esquiry would be well [...]. Permit me to returns yours, my thanks for your entertaining volume of Chemical essays [publié en 1815 en 5 volumes]. I would be glad to see you any Saturdays evenings [...]"

Cachet de la collection d'autographes du Dr. Max Thorek, à Chicago. [Max Thorek (1880-1960), chirurgien américain d'origine hongroise, fonda le Collège international de chirurgie en 1935 et le Musée des sciences de la chirurgie, en 1954].