If you’re interested, here is the publisher’s page for the book series that will constitute the published correspondence down the road:
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/series/correspondence_of_john_tyndall_the

Thanks for the comment and finding the bibliography useful. I agree that work on Tyndall has leaned in one direction, but with the correspondence project currently underway, we can expect to see new avenues explored in Tyndall research.

I notice the list is relatively light on Tyndall’s physics. It’s relatively heavy on Darwinism, evolution, agnosticism. Tyndall was primarily a physicist, and a very productive physicist. The evolution-related stuff is overweighted in the literature about him, not just in this particular list but in general. The 1981 book John Tyndall: Essays on a Natural Philosopher was criticized by at leat one reviewer for not having enough depth about Tyndall the physicist. I haven’t read that book myself, but I find it easy to presume the reviewer is right, based on what’s available and not available elsewhere about Tyndall’s physics. A 1979 article “John Tyndall: unifier of 19th century science” is titled a bit hyperbolically. But “Heat as a Mode of Motion” was hugely influential for the physicists of the generation that came of age in the couple of decades after it was first published. Tyndall’s microbes research, and his glacier research, is historically of considerably lesser importance but gets equal airtime in the above literature list.

I live in Haslemere. I’ve “lectured” on Tyndall at the Haslemere Museum (just a short walk from his grave) and am trying to get the local Wetherspoon’s pub named the JOHN TYNDALL. Hard work, but I’ll do it.

Jo Morley