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and leave them for Sir H. Davy to examine, he did so, and next morning the 

 footman brought a note requesting to see him, he attended. Sir Humphry 

 enquired into his cireumstances and told him to attend to the Bookbinding, 

 and if any opportunity occurod he would think of him. Soon after this Sir 

 Humphry met with an accident from the bursting of some glass, part of which 

 How into his eye, he sent for M. Faraday who transacted some business to his 

 satisfaction, after Sir Humphry's return from Woburn, a vacancy happening 

 in the Koyal Institution it was offered to young Faraday, he accepted it in 

 March, during his stay he received a valuable present in books. Sir Humphry 

 resigning the Lectureship, Mr Brand began and Faraday attending on him 

 till Sept. about the end of which Sir Humphry returned from a tour to Scot- 

 land — and engaged him as his Secretary at a suitable salary to attend him in 

 his travels, thus was this young man at the end of one year from his Appren- 

 ticeship placed in a situation of correspondence with the Learned Societies of 

 Europe, and gaining that experimental knowledge which joined to his natural 

 industry will, I think, bid fair to place him in a very exalted situation on his 

 return. 



1 should observe the Gentlemen of the Institution made him a very liberal 

 present independent of his Salary on his taking leave of them. 



On the 12 October 1813— Sir H. Davy, his Lady— Michael Faraday — her 

 Maid — and a footman left Berkeley Square for Portsmouth from whence they 

 embarked in the Collingwood Cartel with their Traveling Carriage and Four— 

 for Morlaix — he is expected to go to Paris — Italy — Greece — Egypt — Constanti- 

 nople— and perhaps return in five or six years. 



I am. Sir, Yrs sincerely 



G. RIEBAU. 2 Blandford St. 



The Honorary Secretary announced the decease of the Right lion. 

 Lord Lister, O.M. P.O. D.G.L. LL.D. F.R.S., on the 4th of Decem- 

 ber last. 



The Members of the Royal Institution, of which he was for twenty 

 years a Member, and for several years a Manager, desire to join with 

 the whole civilized world in expressing their sorrow for the death of 

 that illustrious surgeon and man of science, Lord Lister, and in re- 

 cording theu' profound sense of the vast and incalculaljle services he 

 has rendered to humanity in the saving of life and in the alleviation 

 of suffering. Gruided by the results of physical and chemical investi- 

 gation, Lord Lister inaugurated more than half a century ago a new 

 method of the treatment of wounds, which, against strenuous opposi- 

 tion, with modest persistence, he defended and advanced, whicii has 

 now become the one sure foundation of modern surgery, and the in- 

 fluence of which is felt in every department of medical practice, and 

 in the domestic habits of the people. 



Lord Lister's achievements as the apostle of scientific cleanliness 

 have made a new epoch in the hygienic history of mankind, and his 

 memory will be for ever revered as a benefactor of the human race. 

 Endowed with true scientific genius, Lord Lister brought unwearied 

 patience to bear on his own researches, and at the same time main- 

 tained a wide survey over the whole field of science, and was thus 

 able to fill with singular distinction the office of President of the Royal 

 Society. The first medical Peer, he added a new lustre to the Upper 

 Chamber of the Legislature, while his personal charm of manner 



