38 Faraday as a Discoverer. 
a paper to her as a thank-offering, I thought of my first instructress, 
me 
and such like thoughts will remain with 
“ 
ave some such thoughts even as regards your own father; — 
who was, I may say, the first who personally at Geneva, and after 
ward by correspondence, encouraged, and by that sustained me.” 
show you something that will interest you.” We walked 
northward, passed the house of Mr. Babbage, which drew 
forth a reference to the famous evening parties once assembled 
there. We reached Blandford street and after a little looking 
about, he paused before a stationer’s shop, and then went m 
On entering the shop, his usual animation seemed doubled ; he 
looked rapidly at everything it contained. To the left on en- 
tering was a door, through which he looked down into a little 
room, with a window in front facing Blandford street. Draw- | 
ing me toward him, he said eagerly, “Look there, Tyndall; 
that was my working-place, I bound books in that little nook.” 
A respectable-looking woman stood behind the counter: his 
conversation with me was too low to be heard by her, and he 
now turned to the counter to buy some cards as an excuse for 
our being there. He asked the woman her name—her prede- 
cessor’s name—his predecessor’s name. “That won't do,” he 
said, with good-humored impatience, who was his predeces- 
sor 
such person.” Great was her delight eho I told her the name 
een this period and 1818 various notes aD 
papers were published by Faraday. In 1818 he experimented 
upon “So g Flames.” Professor Auguste De la Rive, 
father of our present excellent De la Rive, had investigated 
