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never cared to prevent your election., nor should I have taken any pains to form 

 a party in private to oppose you. What I should have done would have been 

 to take the opportunity, which the proposing to ballot for you would have 

 afforded me, to make remarks in public on that part of your conduct to which 

 I objected. Of this I made no secret, having intimated my intention to some 

 of those from whom I knew you would hear of it, and to the President 

 himself. When I meet with any of those in whose presence such conversa- 

 tion may have passed, I shall state that my objections to you as a Fellow 

 are and ought to be withdrawn, and that I now wish to forward your 

 election. 5 ' 



Aug. 29, Faraday writes to Mr. Warburton : — 



" I thank you sincerely for your kindness in letting me know your opinion 

 of the statement ; though your approbation of it is not unreserved, yet it 

 very far surpasses what I expected ; and I rejoice that you do not now think 

 me destitute of those moral feelings which you remarked to me were neces- 

 sary in a Fellow of the Royal Society. 



" Conscious of my own feelings and the rectitude of my intentions, I ne\er 

 hesitated in asserting my claims, or in pursuing that line of conduct which 

 appeared to me to be right. I wrote the statement under this influence 

 without any regard to the probable result ; and I am glad that a step which 

 I supposed would rather tend to aggravate feelings against me has, on the 

 contrary, been the means of satisfying the minds of many, and of making 

 them my friends. Two months ago I had made up my mind to be rejected 

 by the Royal Society as a Fellow, notwithstanding the knowledge I had 

 that many would do me justice ; and in the then state of my mind rejection 

 or reception would have been equally indifferent to me. Now that I have 

 experienced so fully the kindness and liberality of Dr. Wollaston, which 

 has been constant throughout the whole of this affair, and that I find an 

 expression of goodwill strong and general towards me, I am delighted by 

 the hope I have of being honoured by Fellowship with the Society ; and I 

 thank you sincerely for your promise of support in my election, because I 

 know you would not give it unless you sincerely thought me a fit person 

 to be admitted." 



Faraday was the original Secretary of the Athenseum Club ; but finding 

 the occupation incompatible with his pursuits, resigned in May 1824. The 

 original prospectus and early list of members have his name attached to 

 them. 



This year he was elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of 

 Sciences, Paris, of the Accademia dei Georgofili di Firenze, Honorary 

 Member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the British Institution. 



Mt. 32 (1824). 



Faraday was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, January 8th. This 

 year he published only a historical statement in the Quarterly Journal of 

 Science on the liquefaction of gases, showing that carbonic acid, ammonia, 



