Although I have formal authorization to speak only for my confreres 

 in the United States, I feel quite safe in assuming in a degree to be the 

 spokesman for men of science of whatever nationality. As such, I say 

 to you of Britain that, although Faraday was of your blood, we of other 

 lands yield you nothing in the measure of the respect and admiration 

 in which we hold him. Go where you will in our institutions of learn- 

 ing, in the stately edifices we raise as homes for our scientific societies, 

 or in the more prosaic housing of our scientific industrial establish- 

 ments, and you will find always the evidence of our regard. For us 

 he is ever a great simple man who enriched the world as few others 

 have been privileged to enrich it. 



In a way there is something peculiarly fitting in this tribute which I 

 bring you and in the manner of its delivery. Involved in it is probably 

 more of the fruit of all Faraday's works than can be encompassed in 

 any other single happening in our modern world. 



For me to sit here in Boston where Alexander Graham Bell made his 

 great invention based on Faraday's discoveries and address you in 

 London requires the application of something of all that men have 

 learned in a hundred years in the fields to which Faraday opened the 

 gates. Looking back across the years from the vantage point of our 

 present achievements, it seems incredible that such vast things could 

 have had such modest beginnings as those simple experiments of a 

 simple kindly man. And yet, as we look forward through the eyes of 

 a faith that has been trained to see distant things, it is clear that we 

 have but embarked on the voyage. 



While both you and I and those for whom I am speaking will long 

 have passed to the great beyond, you may be assured that our descend- 

 ants will join your descendants a hundred years hence when it comes 

 time to commemorate another centenary of the man we are honoring 

 today. For the present I can only reiterate that we in the far parts of 

 the world are proud to have a spiritual part in your ceremonial. 



Frank B. Jewett. 



