63 The President's Address. 



In 1821 he discovered the mutual rotation of a magnetic 

 pole and an electric current ; in 1823 the discovery of the 

 condensation of gases; in 1831 and following years the de- 

 velopment of the induction of electric currents, and the 

 evolution of electricity from magnetism. In 1846 he ob- 

 tained the Rumford medal, and that of the Royal Society, 

 for the establishment of the principle of definite electrolytic 

 action, and the discovery of diamagnetism and the influence 

 of magnetism upon light. He made known the character 

 of oxygen, and the magnetic relations of flame and gases, in 

 1847. 



When Mr. Fuller founded the Chair of Chemistry in the 

 Royal Institution, in 1833, Faraday was appointed First 

 Professor. In 1835 he received a pension from Government 

 of £300 a year, for his important services to science. In 

 1836 he was appointed Scientific Adviser on Lights to the 

 Trinity House, and was subsequently nominated to a similar 

 post under the Board of Trade. From 1829 to 1842 he was 

 Chemical Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy at Wool- 

 wich. 



In 1823 he was made a Corresponding Member of the 

 Academy of Sciences in Paris; in 1825 he was elected a 

 Fellow of the Royal Society; and in 1832 the honorary 

 degree of Doctor of the Civil Laws was conferred on him by 

 the University of Oxford. He was a Knight of the Prussian 

 Order of Merit, of the Italian Order of St. Maurice and 

 Lazarus, and one of the eight Foreign Associates of the 

 Imperial Academy of Sciences of Paris. In 1855 he was 

 nominated an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and in 1863 

 he was made an Associate of the Paris Academy of Medicine. 

 His death occurred on Sunday, August 25th, 1867 ; and he 

 was buried at Highgate on Friday, the 30th. 



Of the two former — Henry Black and Henry Clark — I have 

 been unable to gather any particulars. I will therefore pass 

 to Robert Warington. 



Mr. Warington was born at Sheerness on September 7th, 

 1807, A considerable part of his school days were spent at 

 Merchant Taylors' School. In 1822 he was apprenticed as 

 house pupil to Mr. J. T. Cooper, then Lecturer on Chemistry 

 to the Medical Schools of Aldersgate Street and Webb Street. 

 When University College opened in 1828, Mr. Warington 

 was chosen assistant by Dr. E. Turner, at first in conjunc- 

 tion with Mr. W. Gregory (afterwards Professor of Chemistry 

 at Edinburgh), then by himself. Three years later he w^as 

 recommended by Dr. Turner to Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, 

 Buxton, and Co., who desired to have a young chemist in 



