CHAPTER VI. 



VISIT TO EUROPE: RESIDENCE IN LONDON. 



Residence in Europe. Mr. John Taylor. Dr. William Henry. Dr. 

 Dalton's Lecture and Conversation. Arrival in London. Mr. Wil- 

 liam Nicholson. Frederic Accum, the German Chemist. - 1 - Dr. George 

 Pearson and his Lectures. Illumination by Gas. Scientific Socie- 

 ties. Davy. Sir Joseph Banks. Visit to Cornwall. Dr. Ryland 

 and Mr. Winterbotham. Military Preparations on the English Coast. 

 Back to London. At the House of Benjamin West: Joel Barlow, 

 Robert Fulton, and Karl Stanhope. Interview with Davy. Professor 

 William Allen's Lecture and Conversation. At Cambridge : Professor 

 Farish. Visit to Liudley Murray. 



THE year which Mr. Silliman spent abroad was 

 crowded with profitable and agreeable employments. 

 In Liverpool, where he landed and first saw the 

 English on their own island, he had the good for- 

 tune to form the acquaintance of Mr. Eoscoe. After 

 a visit to Manchester, he resorted to the Derbyshire 

 mines, which he diligently explored. At Coventry 

 he witnessed the confusion and riot of an English 

 election. Pursuing his way to London, he took up 

 his abode in that metropolis for several months, exe- 

 cuting the commission with which he was charged 

 by the College, prosecuting his scientific studies, and 

 making himself acquainted with things and persons 

 of note. In society he met the leading scientific 

 men of the day, including Watt, and our country- 

 man, Robert Fulton. In Parliament he had the 



