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the notes which he had taken of his lectures, and requested his 
assistance in obtaining some position which would allow him to 
pursue his scientific tastes, Sir Humphry kindly attended to his 
request, and procured for him the place of chemical assistant in 
the laboratory of the Royal Institution, Faraday entered upon 
this office in March 1813, and at Sir Humphry’s request he 
accompanied him as his amanuensis on his tour to the Continent 
in 1814. Upon their return, in 1815, Faraday resumed his place 
at the Royal Institution, and began that course of experimental re- 
search which led him to such brilliant discoveries. 
In May 1821 he was appointed superintendent of the house and 
laboratory of the Institution. In 1823 he was elected a correspond- 
ing member of the French Academy of Sciences. On the death of 
Dalton, in 1844, he was elected one of the eight Foreign Associates 
of that distinguished body; and since the death of Humboldt, 
he has been the eldest member in that class of the Academy. 
In 1824 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London, 
and for his brilliant discoveries, recorded in their Transactions, he 
received successively the Copley, Rumford, and Royal Medals, 
being, with one exception, the only person who has received all the 
medals which the Royal Society can bestow. In 1827 he published 
his work on Chemical Manipulation, which reached a second edition 
in 1836, and a third in 1842. In 1829 he was appointed Lecturer 
on Chemistry to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. In 
1832, when the British Association met at Oxford, he received the 
degree of D.C.L. In 1833 he was appointed Fullerian Professor of 
Chemistry in the Royal Institution. In 1835 Lord Melbourne 
granted him a pension of L.300, in recognition of his great dis- 
coveries. In 1836 he was appointed scientific adviser to the 
Trinity House, in reference to the lighthouses under their manage- 
ment, and in the same year he was nominated one of the senate 
of the University of London. In 1842 he was made Chevalier of 
the Prussian Order “ Pour le Meritef founded by Frederick the 
Great, and recently extended to men of science and learning, who 
are recommended by the Royal Berlin Academy of Sciences. In 
1855 he received the decoration of Commander of the Legion of 
Honour, and he obtained similar decorations from other sovereigns. 
In 1855, he published his u Observations on Mental Education,” 
