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resigning all my functions as one incompetent to take up such matters, 

 and the Royal Institution as well as the Trinity House have so far accepted 

 them as to set me free from all anxiety of thought in respect to them. In 

 fact my memory is gone, and I am obliged to refrain from reading argu- 

 mentative matter or from judging of it. I am very thankful for their ten- 

 derness in the matter ; and if it please Providence to continue me a year or 

 two in this life, I hope to bear the decree patiently. My time for contend- 

 ing for temporal honours is at an end, whether it be for myself or 

 others." 



In the fine summer at Hampton Court he sat in his window delighting 

 in the clouds and the holiday-people on the green. A friend from 

 London asked how he was. "Just waiting," he replied. This he more 

 fully said in a note. " I bow before him who is Lord of all, and hope 

 to keep waiting patiently for His time and mode of releasing me ac- 

 cording to His divine word, and the great and precious promises whereby 

 His people are made partakers of the divine nature." 



To Sir James South, who wished to have some account of Anderson's 

 services, Faraday wrote : — " Whilst endeavouring to fulfil your wishes in re- 

 lation to my old companion, Mr. Anderson, I think I cannot do better 

 than accompany some notes which he has himself drawn up and had printed, 

 by some remarks of mine, which will show how and how long he has been 

 engaged here. 



" He came to assist in the glass house for the service of science in Septem- 

 ber 1827, where he remained working until about 1830. Then for a while 

 he was ^retained by myself. In 1832 he was in the service of the Royal 

 Institution, and paid by it. From that time to the present he has remained 

 with that body, and has obtained their constant approbation. In January 

 1842 they raised his pay to ^£100 per annum with praise. In 1847 they 

 raised it in like manner to £110. For the same reason in 1853 they raised 

 it to £120 ; and in I860, in a minute, of which I think Mr. Anderson 

 has no copy, they say that, in consideration of his now lengthened services 

 and the diligence exhibited by him, they are of opinion that his salary 

 should be raised to £130. 



" Mr. Anderson still remains with us, and is in character what he has 

 ever been. He and I are companions in years and in work and in the 

 Royal Institution. Mr. Brande's testimony when he left the Institution 

 is to the same purport as the others. Mr. i\.nderson was 75 years of age 

 on the 12th of last month (January). He is a widower, but has a daughter 

 keeping his house for him. We wish him not to come to the Royal Insti- 

 tution, save when he is well enough to make it a pleasure ; but he seems 

 to be happy being so employed." 



Mt. 74 (1866). 



Early in January Anderson died. Sir James South wished some monu- 

 ment to be put up to him, and wrote to Faraday. He replied: — 



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