Note 12 — Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology: Paper 38 The Earliest Electromagnetic Instruments
Reading edition
Op. cit. (footnote 6), paragraph 283, dated January 1833. A similar attitude was expressed in the same year by Christie, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1833), vol. 123, p. 96: “I adopt the word current as a convenient mode of expression, ... but I would not be considered as adopting any theoretical views on the subject....”