306 THE EAELY HISTOEY OF [CHAP. V. 



Rev. J. Powell on Natural Philosophy ; Mr. Thompson 

 on Sculpture. 



Before the lectures began in 1813 Mr. Edmund 

 Davy, chemical assistant in the laboratory, resigned ; 

 and, at the beginning of the year, Payne's salary was 

 increased to 25s. weekly. He had had a room in the 

 house for nearly six months. On the increase of his 

 salary his duties were thus laid down by the managers, 

 and five weeks afterwards they became the duties of 

 Mr. Faraday : ' To attend and assist the lecturers and 

 professors in preparing for and during lectures. Where 

 any instruments or apparatus may be required, to at- 

 tend to their careful removal from the model room and 

 laboratory to the lecture room, and to clean and replace 

 them after being used, reporting to the managers such 

 accidents as shall require repair, a constant diary being 

 kept by him for that purpose. That in one day in each 

 week he be employed in keeping clean the models 

 in the repository, and that all the instruments in 

 the glass cases be cleaned and dusted at least once 

 within a month.' 



Towards the end of February Mr. Harris, the 

 Librarian and Superintendent of the House, reported to 

 the managers ' that, hearing a great noise one evening 

 in the lecture room, he went to see the cause of it. 

 He found Mr. Payne and Mr. Newman at high words, 

 and Mr. Newman complained of having been struck 

 by Payne for representing to him his neglect of duty 

 in being absent when he should have attended on Mr. 

 Brande.' The managers immediately resolved that 

 Mr. Payne should be dismissed from the Royal Insti- 



