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business at home were remunerated by the salary For these 



reasons [which he gives] I wish you would originate the terms rather than 



I I consider the offer a high honour, and beg you to feel 



assured of my sense of it. I should have been glad to have accepted or 

 declined it, independent of pecuniary motives ; but my time is my only 

 estate, and that which would be occupied in the duty of the situation must 

 be taken from what otherwise would be given to professional business." 

 At Christmas he for the first time gave the Juvenile Lectures. 



m. 38 (1830). 



This year he had a paper in the Institution Journal supplementary to 

 his former paper in 1 826 on the limits of vaporization. 



His Friday evening discourses were on Aldini's proposed method of pre- 

 serving men exposed to flame; on the Transmission of Musical sounds 

 through solid conductors and their subsequent reciprocation ; on the Flow- 

 ing of Sand under Pressure ; on the application of a New Principle in the 

 Construction of Musical Instruments ; on the laws of Coexisting Vibrations 

 in strings and rods, illustrated by the kaleidophone. 



The following recollections from about 1823 to 1830 are by Mrs. Fara- 

 day's youngest brother, Mr. George Barnard, the artist : — 



"All the years I was with Harding I dined at the Royal Institution. 

 After dinner we nearly always had our games just like boys — sometimes at 

 ball, or with horse chestnuts instead of marbles, Faraday appearing to enjoy 

 them as much as I did, and generally excelling us all. Sometimes we rode 

 round the theatre on a velocipede (and tradition remains that in the 

 earliest part of a summer morning Faraday has been seen going up Hamp- 

 stead Hill on his velocipede). 



" At this time we had very pleasant conversaziones of artists, actors, and 

 musicians at Hullmandei's, sometimes going up the river in his eight-oar 

 cutter, cooking our own dinner, enjoying the singing of Garcia and his 

 wife and daughter (afterwards Malibran), indeed of all the best Italian 

 singers, and the society of most of the Royal Academicians, such as Stan- 

 field, Turner, Westall, Landseer, &c. 



" After Hullmandei's excellent suppers, served on a dozen or two small 

 tables in his large rooms, we had charades, Faraday and many of us tak- 

 ing parts with Garcia, Malibran, and the rest. 



"My first and many following sketching trips were made with Faraday 

 and his wife. Storms excited his admiration at all times, and he was never 

 tired of looking into the heavens. He said to me once, 'I wonder you artists 

 don't study the light and colour in the sky more, and try more for effect.' 

 I think this quality in Turner's drawings made him admire them so much. 

 He made Turner's acquaintance at Hullmandei's, and afterwards often had 

 applications from him for chemical information about pigments. Faraday 

 always impressed upon Turner and other artists the great necessity there 

 was to experiment for themselves, putting washes and tints of all their pig- 



