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nevertheless relish very much. It is indeed a great treat tome now and then to shake off from ray Shoulders the dust ofthe laboratory and störe up my mind with the Images ofexquisitely beautiful objects, creations certainly belonging toan order of things infinitely superior to that under which weränge physical phenomena and philosophical truths. And Iwill not conceal it from you, that 011 returning to the earthfrom the lofty regions, where Imagination reigns and rules, Ifecl myself a better philosopher and matter of fact dealer, foreven on the prosaic ground of palpable matter, we cannot dowithout that enchantrcss who conjures up Ideal worlds.

New being at the end of my stories and sheet I beg youto pardon the loquacity of

Your

old and affectionate friend

Bäle Febr. 9. 1857.

C. F. SCHOENBEIN.

P. S. Pray present my best compliments to Mrs. Faraday.

Schambein to Faraday.

Basle April 25r.l1 1857My dear Faraday

I write you these lines to ask you the favor ofletting occasionally know your Friend at Stamford-hill, that,about the time indicated by her, my daughter will kecp herseifready for her projected journey to England and hope that someproper travelling companions will in the right season maketheir appearance at Basle, under whose guidance Miss Schoen-bein may safely be carried over to London. — The last holidays