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sistant Editor of the Journals of the Institution, and that 

 he be allowed to occupy a room in the house and be fur- 

 nished with coals and candles, and that he be paid a salary 

 of 1001. per annum.' 



On this occasion I did not neglect to give an account to 

 the managers of the whole of what passed between us 

 respecting the situation it was intended you should fill in 

 the Institution on your engaging in its service, and the 

 prospects that could with propriety be held out to you of 

 future advantages, and the managers agreed with me in 

 thinking that, as you had expressed your willingness to 

 devote yourself entirely and permanently to the Institution, 

 it would be right and proper to hold out to you the prospect 

 of becoming, in the course of two or three years, Professor 

 of Chemistry in the Institution, with a salary of 300?. 

 per annum, provided that within that period you shall 

 have given proofs of your fitness to hold that distinguished 

 situation. 



Although you must ever consider the duties of the offices 

 you may hold under the Institution as the primary objects 

 of your care and attention, yet the managers are so far 

 from being desirous that you should relinquish the private 

 philosophical investigations in which you have hitherto been 

 engaged, and by which you have so honourably distinguished 

 yourself and attracted their attention, that it will afford them 

 the sincerest pleasure to encourage and assist you in these 

 laudable pursuits, and give you every facility which the 

 philosophical apparatus at the Institution can afford to 

 make new and interesting experiments. 



You will naturally consider the Journals of the Institu- 

 tion as the most proper vehicle for communicating to the 

 public from time to time short accounts of the progress you 

 may make in your investigations ; this will, however, by no 

 means be considered as precluding you in any degree from 

 presenting to the Royal Society of London, or any other 

 earned body, philosophical papers or memoirs on such 



