Berkeley Westropp to Faraday   23 May 18351

Society's House | 2 Chatham Place | May 23, 1835.

Sir,

I am directed by the Committee of the Royal Humane Society to return you their grateful thanks for your letter of the 7th Inst. respecting the impurity of the water used at present for the purposes of the Society at the new Receiving House in Hyde Park, and recommending that another source be resorted to for a supply of pure water, a recommendation which the Committee have felt it their duty to adopt2.

The Committee, sensible of the advantages which the Institution has derived, on former occasions, as well as upon this, from your talented enquiries on subjects connected with the preservation of human life, and grateful for the lively interest you have evinced for the welfare of the Society and the fulfilment of its objects - have unanimously Elected you a Governor for life of the Institution.

I have the honor | to remain | Sir | Yours very Sincerely | B. Westropp | Secretary

Michael Faraday Esq FRS. | &c &c &c | Royal Institution.

1
Berkeley Westropp. Secretary of the Royal Humane Society, 1830-1844. Royal Humane Society Annual Report,1844, 24.
2
See "Royal Institution Laboratory Notebook, 1830-1861", 5 May 1835, RI MS HD 8b, p. 62 for Faraday's analysis.

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