Richard Northen to Faraday   30 April 18331

Hull April 30th 1833

Sir,

I have the honor to announce to you, that at a General Meeting of the Hull Literary & Philosophical Society, held on Friday the 26th instant, you were unanimously elected an Honorary Member of that Institution.

I have the honor to be | Sir, | Your Most Obedient Servant | Richd. Northen | Secretary

To M. Faraday Esq, F.R.S., L.L.D. | Corrsp. Memb. Institute France &c | &c &c &c

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Richard Northen, one of the secretaries of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society from 1822. On 12 April 1822 Northen read a paper to the Society entitled "Some of the recent discoveries in Electricity and Magnetism". Some of the apparatus he used to illustrate this paper had, he said, been lent by Faraday. See Hull Literary and Philosophical Society MS Minute Book.

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