LITTLE known, taking notes at a lecture is a bad habit good 

 JOURNEYS reporters carry no note books. 



After a year Faraday sent a bundle of his impressions 

 and criticisms to Sir Humphrey Davy anonymously. 

 Great men seldom read manuscript that is sent them 

 unless it refers to themselves. At the next lecture, 

 Sir Humphrey began by reading from Faraday's notes, 

 and begged that if the writer was present, he would 

 make himself known at the close of the address. 

 From this was to ripen a love like that of father and 

 son. Every man who builds up such a work as Sir 

 Humphrey Davy did, is appalled when he finds time 

 furrowing his face and -whitening his hair, to think 

 how few indeed there are who can step in and carry 

 this work on after he is gone. 



The love of Davy for the young bookbinder was al- 

 most feverish he clutched at this bright, impression- 

 able and intent young man who entered so into the 

 heart and soul of science nothing would do but he 

 must become his assistant. "Give up all and follow 

 me." And Faraday did. 



Something of the same feeling must have swept over 

 Faraday after his twenty-five years work as director of 

 the British Institution, when John Tyndall appeared, 

 tall, thin, bronzed, animated quoting Bunsen and 

 Humboldt with an Irish accent. 



And so in time Tyndall became assistant to Faraday; 

 then lecturer of natural history, and when Faraday 

 died, by popular acclaim, Tyndall was made Fuller- 

 ian Lecturer and took Faraday's place. 

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