Faraday to Robert Shelton Mackenzie   5 October 18441

Royal Institution | Octr. 1844

Sir

I ought before this to have answered your letter but from a feeling of extreme reluctance to do any thing that might seem to be more or less honoring of myself, have been deterred from replying. However I have put down on the accompanying paper the essential answers to your questions & hope you will excuse both their rough condition & the tardiness of their appearance[.]

I am Sir | Your Very Obedient Servant | M. Faraday

Dr. S. Mackenzie | &c &c &c &c


Born at Newington in Surrey on the 22nd September 1791. Appointed Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution 1st of March 18132. Director of the Laboratory 7 Feby. 18253. Fullerian Professor of Chemistry 12 Feby. 1833 [641]4

Royal Society [215] Accademia dei Georgofili di Firenzi [206]

Geological Society [235] Academy of Sciences of Paris [210]

Cambridge Phil Society [197] Philomatic Society of Paris [342]

Royal Soc of Edinburgh [779] Society of Natural Sciences Heidelberg [350]

Senate of the University of London [895] Impl Acad Sciences Petersburg [490]

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy [525]

and others amounting in all to 50 or more

Society [of] Physical Sciences - Paris [530]

American Academy of Arts & Sciences [565]

Royal Society of Science Copenhagen [610]

Royal Acad of Sciences - Berlin [672]

Academy of Sciences &c Palermo [740]

Physical Society of Frankfort 5

Royal Society of Gottingen [864]

Soc Pharmacy of Lisbon [915]

Soc Science in Modena [945]

Natural Histy Society of Basle [953]

Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm [1116]

American Phil Society - Philadelphia [1233]

Soc of Useful Knowledge - Aix la Chapelle [1478]

June 16, 1842 created Knight of the Order of Merit - Prussia[.] [1420]

The only separate publication that I remember is the Chemical Manipulation 8vo three Editions6. But now the Electrical papers from the Philosophical Transactions & elsewhere are published together in two volumes 8vo7 by Mr. Richard Taylor[.]

The Journals in which I have published have been

The Philosophical Transactions

Quarterly Journal of Science<r> of the Royal Institution

& Philosophical Magazine

I do not remember that I have published any where else except once in the Annales de Chimie8

1
Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1809-1880, DNB). Miscellaneous writer.
2
RI MM, 1 March 1813, 5: 355.
3
RI MM, 7 February 1825, 7: 6.
4
Numbers in square brackets refer to the letters which informed Faraday that he had received these honours.
5
RS MS 241, f.59.
6
Faraday (1827, 1830b, 1842).
7
Faraday (1839b, 1844b).
8
Faraday (1832c).

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1832c): “[Lettre] A M. Gay-Lussac”, Ann. Chim., 51: 404-34.

Please cite as “Faraday1612,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1612