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him see the Royal Institution. He was once a pupil of mine

and is in every respect a most excellent and amiable young

man.

In offering to you and Mrs. Faraday ray most hearty salu-

tations

I am ray dear Faraday

Yours

most truly

C. F. SCHOENBEIN.

Bäle May II. 1843.

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Faraday to Schcenbein.

Royal Institution 16 May 1843My dear friend

I must begin to write you a lctter, though feeling,as 1 do, in the midst of one of my low, nervous attacks, withmemory so treacherous, that I cannot remember the beginningof a sentence to the end — hand disobedient to the will, thatI cannot form the letters, bent with a certain crampness, soI hardly know whether I shall bring it to a close with con-sistency or not. Rut that most valued thing, your kindness,moves mc to write, when to another I would not reveal myweakness by a halting letter. As to your opinion and power ofjudgment etc. of a certain person 1 I havc no doubt the ad-vantagcs you possess which, I admit, have shown you blemishesas well as beauties; but I will not put your candour to the tetsby asking for them. The glass of a kind heart through whichyou look has something to do with the matter.

Now as to the book in English I am afraid to say anything on the matter, not because of my opinion of it, for how

1 p. 277 of his ' Mitteilungen aus dem Reisetagebuch eines deutschenNaturforschers."

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