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the shelves a few phials and a small show of chemicals, and one boj about twelve seated and 

 at his book. Immediately on entering and giving to Dr. Dalton his sealed packet containing 

 liis paper, I said this is from Boston. " Boston, and where is that ?" On which I told him in 

 America, and that tiie paper I gave him was a diploma from the American Academy. He then 

 said that he had read the volume of Transactions, and liked it very well, particularly the paper 

 on Meteorology, but that he wished the times of the appearance of the Aurora Borealis had 

 been stated. lie made several inquiries about the Academy, and desired to know wiien I 

 should leave town ; on my telling him. To-morrow, but that I should return after seeing Scot- 

 land, he said he should be very happy to see me on my return, and to furnish me with the 

 Manchester Memoirs for the Academy's library, and with any or all of his pajjers and works, 

 and desired likewise that I would call and take tea with him. Dr. Dalton I should think 

 about seventy years old, of middling size, a little stooping, shari>featured, and rather sprightly 

 in his gait. He appears to be very near-sighted, and has the peculiar habit of drawing together 

 his eyelids, which is common to near-sighted people. 



London, April 10, 1835. 

 . . . "Went with Mr. Babbage to the Royal Institution to hear a lecture from Dr. Lardner, 

 who lectured without a note of his suljjoct. He s|)oke rapidly, in choice, but familiar language, 

 with a little of the Scotch or perhaps the North Country accent, aiming at pleasantry, but his 

 lecture was excellent, well ordered, well proportioned, and very clear in the explanations. 

 After the lecture Mr. Babbage introduced me to him. I told him I should like to see the 

 apparatus of the London University. " Why," said he, " I have some there, but Dr. Richie, who 

 has the place, will show it to you with pleasure." I told him that we saw all of his books in 

 America, and that some of them were republished. He commenced a reply, as I understood him, 

 "Yes, they are republished to my curse," — meaning perhaps the taking away his profit; but at 

 the instant Faraday came up and asked us down to the lower library to take a cup of tea, 

 which prevented Lardner from concluding his story. In the course of the evening Brunei* 

 said to Faraday, " Mr. Treadwell brought me over a diploma of membership of the American 

 Academy." I said, " Of which Mr. Faraday is already a member." Mr. Faraday said, " Yes, 

 and I am quite proud of all such honors, and always put them to my name, because they are 

 given without interest or favoritism." I said, " Yes, it may be said they are like the judgment 

 of posterity." Babbage was very pleasant and attentive during the whole evening. 



To Mrs. Treadwell. 



London, May 17, 1835. 

 Dear Adda, — I have, as you know from Dr. Ware's letters, been in Wales since I wrote 

 you, and you know the course of my journey. I undertook it for the double purpose of seeing 

 the country, or rather the mining and making iron, and to procure a man for working the 

 iron mines in Pennsylvania owned by Colonel Perkins, Mr. Jackson, and others. In this 

 object I have succeeded, and have made an agreement with an experienced iron-master to 

 transport himself to America to set up furnaces on the Susquehanna. At Bristol I went over 

 the famous Redcliffe Church, where Chatterton pretended to have found the manuscripts of 

 Rowley which he wrote. The edifice is a noble old pile, and I lingered about it for hours, 

 absorbed with reflections on the remains of labor performed before a civilized foot had pressed 



* The engineer of the Thames Tunnel, who began his career in the State of New York. 



