Walter Rogers Johnson to Faraday   29 December 18471

Hall of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila | Philadelphia, Dec. 29, 1847.

Sir Michael Faraday

Sir-

I have the honor to inform you that at a Meeting held on the 28th day of December 1847 you were elected a Correspondent of the Academy.

Permit me, sir, in making this announcement, to add the hope that you will accept this token of the respect and confidence of our Institution, and will allow the Society to avail itself of your valuable co-operation in promoting the discovery and dissemination of new and important truths in any department of Natural Science to which you may be devoted.

Please to accept assurances of the respect with which I subscribe myself, | Your obedient servant | Walter R. Johnson | Corresponding Secretary | Of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philad.

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Walter Rogers Johnson (1794-1852, Reingold and Rothenberg et al. (1972-92), 2: 188-9). American man of science.

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