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coals and candles, and that he be paid a salary of one hundred 

 guineas per annum.' 



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

 the Managers of the whole of what passed between us respect- 

 ino- the situation it was intended you should fill in the Institu- 



& 



tion 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 per- 

 manently 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 three hundred pounds 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 office you may hold under the Institution as 

 the primary objects of your care and attention, yet the Man- 

 agers are far from being desirous that you should relinquish 

 those private philosophical investigations in which you have 

 hitherto been engaged, and by which you have so honorably 

 distinguished yourself and attracted their attention. 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 Institution 

 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 learned body, 

 Philosophical papers, or Memoirs on such scientific subjects as 

 may engage your attention, or from publishing in any other 

 manner the results of your researches. 



" As you are fully informed with respect to the nature and 

 objects of the Royal Institution, and are acquainted with the 

 respectable characters of those distinguished persons with whom 



