1812.] THE ROYAL INSTITUTION. 3.05 



Humphry Davy cannot pledge himself to continue the 

 lectures which he has been accustomed to deliver with* 

 so much honour to the Institution and advantage to 

 the public ; but, at the same time, they congratulate 

 themselves on the liberal offer which Sir Humphry 

 Davy has made to superintend the chemical depart- 

 ment, and to assist and advise any lecturer the mana- 

 gers may be pleased to appoint.' The managers 

 immediately appointed him Director of the Laboratory 

 and Mineralogical Collection, and expressed their high 

 sense of his past services, gave him their thanks, 

 and ordered a special general meeting to be called to 

 nominate him Professor of Chemistry. He was elected 

 Professor of Chemistry on June 1. On the same day 

 twenty-five members were also elected on each of the 

 committees. 



A quarrel in the Institution must here be men- 

 tioned, because it shows that the changed circum- 

 stances of Davy led to the engagement of Faraday. 

 The apparatus and models of the Institution had been 

 under Davy's care; they were now placed under the 

 care of Mr. Pepys, and he was made Honorary In- 

 spector of the Models and Apparatus, and Mr. Newman, 

 the instrument maker, was put under him. Soon after 

 the managers ordered that William Payne, originally 

 the laboratory boy, should be employed in cleaning 

 and repairing the apparatus in conjunction with Mr. 

 Xewman. 



In December Dr. Smith was appointed to lecture on 

 Botany ; Dr. Eoget on Comparative Anatomy ; T. Camp- 

 bell on Poetry ; Mr. Brande on Chemical Philosophy ; 



