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SCIENCE AND ART.†

... to the young people with some very thatty, pleasant articles on subjects of interest to students, such as the life of Michael Faraday, Z'atent Office appointments, the life of Sir Joseph WVhitworth, and the foundation of the famous Whitworth Scholarships ...

LITERATURE

... parted from the seisntilic view-to pie tes the per- ibonal one. Dr. Tyndall is the man among men, vlo would pre- sent Michael Faraday to an audience-as he appeared in the lecture-room. ?? can tell all the mait did, cand all the truths to Which his labours ...

THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.*

... and wise, that biographical dictionaries are compiled. Perhaps the most distinguished name among the five hundred is Michael Faraday. The memoir is contributed by Professor Tyndall, whose longer biography is well known to students. While setting forth ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... a very subordinate position in a London warehouse. Sir William Cubitt, when a lad. worked in his father's flour.mill. Michael Faraday, ;ngland's most eminent chemist, was the son of a poor black- smith. Sir Samuel Morton Peto worked for seven years as ...

POETRY

... a Protestantphilosopher yet living, and contituted that eminen t man of science who adorns our Royal Institution St. Michael Faraday ? Qitracts from Jlun. A CROWN JEWEI-The Emerald Isle. EPITAPH ON A PLovousoY.-Only a clod ! EPITAPH ON A SMOKER.-My ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... green resting-place of Michael Faraday, of whom a distinguished man of science well said, He was too good a man for me to estimate him; and he was too great a philosopher for me to understand hiim thoroughly. Michael Faraday had the true spirit of ...

SOCIETY OF ARTS

... made for the lectures before Easter, 1859:- Six Lectures on Metalline Properties (adapted to a ju- venile auditory), by Michael Faraday, Esq., ?? ?? in the Christmas vacation, 1858-9. . Twelve Lectures on Fossil Mammals, by Richard Owen, I Esq., ?? F.IiS ...

Scraps

... scientists of the age. The chair- man, Mr. Crossnman, mentioned that at Hlighgate Cemetery, whilst the place of interment of Michael Faraday was marked but by a small slab of marble, a short distance off a pretentious monument was erected to the memory of Tom ...

LITERATURE

... Sunday MaUngaze for October. The Labour Circular, No a A Glance At the Commols and Open Spaces near ton- don.-G. Bill. Michael Faraday, Philosopher and Christian: a Lecture by the Rev. Samuel Martin-John Camden frotten. A Conference Betwixt a Papist and ...

LITERATURE

... aiid purpose to send themn to thle book WI itself. 1i' 8'iiy Letsfiurs on tie 0hcsatceh. iri~story; of a G'aad'c. tli By MICHAEL FARADAY, F.R, S. Griffn, Bohin, as and Co. ai Old Bonmes. By the Rev. W. S. SYMaONs, F. G.S. w Hardwvickec. at We have placed ...

LITERATURE

... every man of education wtill desire to possess. v A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical IlistorY i. of a Candle. By MICHAEL FARADAY, ?? X F.R.S. Delivered before a Juvenile Auditoy . at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, during se the Christmas ...

NATIONAL PORTRAIT EXHIBITION

... the Duke of .Newcastle,,, Sir G. . Lewis the 1 Marquis of Dalhousie, ILord Campbell, Lord Pal-' t merston, Lord Lyons, Michael Faraday, the Earl of Rose, Dr. Arnold, A. Welby Pugin (a curious t picture byH:erbert, RA., in the mediteval style),' N Sivage ...