TO 



MICHAEL FAKADAY, D.C.L., F.R.S. 



FULLERIAN PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE ROYAL 

 INSTITUTION. 



DEAR DR. FARADAY : 



Professor Matteucci has requested me to dedicate to 

 you, in his name, this English edition of his Lectures on 

 the Physical Phenomena of Living Beings. With that 

 request I most cordially comply. To no one could the 

 following pages be more appropriately inscribed than to 

 yourself, to whom the physical sciences are indebted for 

 some of the most brilliant and splendid discoveries of 

 this prolific age. To no one could I with more pleasure 

 address this work than to you, for whom I have ever 

 entertained the warmest feelings of admiration, respect, 

 and esteem, 



Believe me, my dear Dr. Faraday, 

 Ever faithfully yours, 



JONATHAN PEREIRA. 



Finsbury Square, Sept. 1847. 



M31S905 



