310 THE EAKLY HISTOKY OF [CHAP. V. 



managers resolved that the assistant porter should be 

 discharged, and that the former assistant porter should 

 take his place, and ' that Michael Faraday be engaged 

 as assistant in the laboratory and mineralogical collec- 

 tion and superintendent of the apparatus at a salary of 

 30s. a week, and that he be accommodated with apart- 

 ments in the house under the superintendence of Mr. 

 Brande.' 



The rooms given to him were 25 and 26, the two 

 furthest on the attic floor. The sister of the librarian, 

 Mr. Harris, occupied the smallest of these (26), and 

 there were difficulties about any other arrangement, so 

 that a few weeks afterwards the librarian asked per- 

 mission to reside out of the house. 



In 1816 the managers decided that, in consideration 

 of the additional labour caused to Michael Faraday by 

 the lectures of Mr. Brande in the laboratory, his salary 

 should be raised to WOl. per annum. The pecuniary dif- 

 ficulties of the Institution were increasing, and Sir 

 Humphry Davy, Mr. Auriol, and Mr. Solly were ap- 

 pointed as a sub-committee to examine the expendi- 

 ture. In 1817 the debts increased. 



In 1818 the bill for coals in 1816 was paid. Mr. 

 Fuller, who ultimately founded the Fullerian Professor- 

 ships, allowed one thousand pounds, which he had 

 invested for the benefit of the Institution, to be used 

 for the payment of debts. In the autumn Sir Thomas 

 Bernard died. 



In 1819 Mr. Brande applied to the board, on the 

 part of Mr. Faraday, for permission to occupy the two 

 southernmost front rooms on the second floor. 



