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pelled by ill health to relinquish it in 1827. " It was 

 his wish," says his brother, " to have seen the Royal 

 Society an efficient establishment for all the great 

 practical purposes of science, similar to the college 

 contemplated by Lord Bacon, and sketched in his 

 New Atlantis ; having subordinate to it the Royal 

 Observatory at Greenwich for astronomy ; the Brit- 

 ish Museum, for natural history, in its most exten- 

 sive acceptation." 



Sir Humphry Davy, after a life crowded with 

 splendid achievements, died at Geneva in 1829 with 

 many of his noblest dreams unfulfilled. Fortunately 

 in Michael Faraday, who is sometimes referred to 

 as the greatest of his discoveries, he had a successor 

 who was fully adequate to the task of furthering the 

 various investigations that his genius had set on 

 foot, and who, to the majority of men of mature 

 mind, is no less personally interesting than the Cor- 

 nish scientist, poet, and philosopher. 



REFERENCES 



John Davy, Works of Sir Humphry Davy. 



John Davy, Fragmentary Remains, literary and scientific, of Sir 



Humphry Davy, Bart. 

 Bence Jones, Life and Letters of Faraday. 

 John Tyndall, Faraday as a Discoverer. 

 E. v. Meyer, History of Chemistry. 

 S. P. Thompson, Michael Faraday ; his Life and Work. 

 Sir Edward Thorpe, Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher. 



