506 MEMORIAL OF JOSEPH HENRY. 



Each of these philosophers worked with simple instruments mostly 

 constructed by his own hands, and by methods so direct that he 

 appeared to have an almost intuitive perception into the workings 

 of nature ; and each gave great care to the composition of his writings, 

 sending his discoveries into the world clothed in simple and elegant 

 English. 



Finally, each loved science more than money, and his Creator 

 more than either. 



There was sympathy between these men; and Henry loved to 

 dwell on the hours that he and Bache had spent in Faraday's society. 

 I shall never forget Henry's account of his visit to King's College, 

 London, where Faraday, Wheatstone, Daniell and he had met to try 

 and evolve the electric spark from the thermopile. Each in turn 

 attempted it and failed. Then came Henry's turn. He succeeded : 

 calling in the aid of his discovery of the effect of a long interpolar 

 wire wrapped around a piece of soft iron. Faraday became as wild 

 as a boy, and, jumping up, shouted: "Hurrah for the Yankee 

 experiment." 



And Faraday and Wheatstone reciprocated the high estimation 

 in which Henry held them. During a visit to England, not long 

 before Wheatstone's death, he told me that Faraday and he had, 

 after Henry's classical investigation of the induced currents of dif- 

 ferent orders, written a joint letter to the Council of the Royal 

 Society, urging that the Copley medal, that laurel wreath of 

 science, should be bestowed on Henry. On further consultation 

 with members of the Council it was decided to defer the honor till 

 it would come with greater e"clat, when Henry had continued further 

 his researches in electricity. Henry's removal to Washington inter- 

 rupted these investigations. Wheatstone promised to give me this 

 letter, to convey to Henry as an evidence of the high appreciation 

 which Faraday and he had for his genius ; but Wheatstone's untimely 

 death prevented this. 



Both Faraday and Henry gave much thought to the philosophy 

 of education, and in the main their ideas agreed. I may, in this 

 connection, be excused for reading abstracts from a letter from Henry 

 soon after he had received the news that I had given my son his 

 name. He says what may be news to the most of you : " I did 



