to get the book back ere his offense was discovered. LITTLE 

 QHeinrich Heine once inscribed a volume of his JOURNEYS 

 poems to a friend, and afterward discovered the vol- 

 ume on the counter of a second-hand dealer. He there- 

 upon haggled with the book man, bought the volume 

 and beneath his first inscription wrote, "With the re- 

 newed regards of H. Heine." He then sent the volume 

 for the second time to his friend. 'Tis possible that 

 Tyndall had heard of this. 



In 1850, when Tyndall was thirty years of age, he 

 visited London, and of course went to the British In- 

 stitution. There he met Faraday for the first time and 

 was welcomed by him. 



The British Institution consists of a laboratory, a 

 museum and a lecture hall, and its object is scientific 

 research. It began in a very simple way in one room 

 and now occupies several buildings. It was founded 

 by Benjamin Thompson, an American, and so it was 

 but proper that its sister concern, the Smithsonian 

 Institute, should have been founded by an Englishman. 

 QSir Humphrey Davy on being asked, "What is your 

 greatest discovery?" replied, "Michael Faraday." 

 ((But this was a mere pleasantry the truth being 

 that Michael Faraday discovered Sir Humphrey Davy. 

 Q Faraday was a bookbinder's apprentice, a fact that 

 should interest all good Roycrofters. Evenings, when 

 Sir Humphrey Davy lectured at the British Institu- 

 tion, the young bookbinder was there. After the 

 lecture he would go home and write out what he had 

 heard, with a few ideas of his own added. For be it 



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