Charles Mansfield Clarke to Faraday   23 April 1852

My dear Dr Faraday

I hardly know how to answer your note: as there was much talking and little regularity at the meeting alluded to - no written motion was made but I believe that the substance of it corresponded with the enclosed1.

Yours very sincerely | Charles M. Clarke

15 Berkeley Square | April 23, 1852


That the Gentleman and Ladies who have attended the Lectures given by Mr Brande in the Theatre of the Royal Institution desire to tender him their best acknowledgements for the kind and admirable manner which he has displayed in illustrating the subjects which have been brought before them in the various courses of lectures on Chemistry delivered at the Institution[.]

1
This refers to Brande’s announcement of his resignation as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution following new regulations issued by the Royal Mint which prohibited its employees from holding other positions. He announced his resignation following a lecture at the Royal Institution on 3 April 1852. See Proc.Roy.Inst.,1852, 1: 168-71 and letters 2524, 2525, 2527 and 2529.

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