524 Mr. Faraday on the Condensation of the Gases, $c. 
The whole paragraph stands thus: ‘ *,.* We endeavoured 
last month to give a full report of the important paper commu- 
nicated by the President to the Royal Society on the 5th [6th] 
of March*; but writing only from memory, we have made two 
errors, one with respect to the rotation of the mercury not 
being stopped, but produced, by the approximation of the mag- 
net; the other in the historical paragraph in the conclusion, 
which, as we have stated it, is unjust to Mr. Faraday, and does 
not at all convey the sense of the author. We wish, therefore, 
to refer our readers forward to the original paper, when it shall 
be published, for the correction of these mistakes.—Zdzt.” 
From this collection of dates and documents any one may 
judge that I at all events was wyustly subject to some degree 
of annoyance, and they will be the more alive to this if they 
recollect that all these things were happening at the very time 
of the occurrence of the condensation of gases and its con- 
sequences, and during the time that my name was before the 
Royal Society as a candidate for its fellowship. Ido not 
believe that any one was wittingly the cause of this state of 
things, but all seemed confusion, and generally to my disad- 
vantage. For instance, this very paper of Sir Humphry Davy’s 
which contains the “ act of justice,” as Dr. Davy calls it, is en- 
titled, “On a new phenomenon of Electro-magnetism.” Yet 
what is electro-magnetic was not new, but merely another form 
of my rotation; and the mew phenomenon is purely electrical, 
being the same as that previously discovered by M. Ampere. 
As M. Ampére’s result is described for the first time in a 
paper of the date of the 4th of September 1822+, and Sir 
Humphry Davy’s paper was read as soon after as the 6th of 
March 18234, the latter probably did not know of the result 
which the former had obtained. 
To conclude this matter: in consequence of these and other 
circumstances, and the simultaneous ones respecting the con- 
densation of chlorine, I wrote the historical statement, to 
which Dr. Davy refers ||, in which, admitting everything that 
Dr. Wollaston had done, I claim and prove my right to the 
discovery of the rotations I had previously described. This 
paper before its publication I read with Dr. Wollaston; he 
examined the proofs which I have adduced at p. 291, and 
after he had made a few alterations which brought it into the 
state in which it is printed, expressed his satisfaction at the ar- 
guments and his approval of the whole. The copy I have pre- 
served, and I will now insert the most considerable and im- 
* So far is mine; the rest is Sir Humphry Davy’s. 
+ Ann. de Chim., 1822, vol. xxi. p. 47. t Phil. Trans. 1823, p. 153. 
§ Quarterly Journal of Science, vol. xv. p. 288. 
|| Life, vol. ii. p. 146. bottom of the page. 
