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(1) Here is Davy's recommendation of Faraday, presented to

the managers of the Royal Institution, at a meeting on the

18th of March, 1813, Charles Hatchett, Esq., in the chair:—

'Sir Humphry Davy has the honour to inform the managers that

he has found a person who is desirous to occupy the

situation in the Institution lately filled by William Payne.

His name is Michael Faraday. He is a youth of twenty-two

years of age. As far as Sir H. Davy has been able to

observe or ascertain, he appears well fitted for the

situation. His habits seem good; his disposition active and

cheerful, and his manner intelligent. He is willing to

engage himself on the same terms as given to Mr. Payne at

the time of quitting the Institution.

'Resolved—That Michael Faraday be engaged to fill the

situation lately occupied by Mr. Payne, on the same terms.'

(2) Faraday loved this word and employed it to the last; he

had an intense dislike to the modern term physicist.

(3) To whom I am indebted for a copy of the original letter.