Faraday, Michael: born, 1; schooling of, 2; goes as errand boy, 3; apprenticed as bookbinder and stationer, 5; journeyman bookbinder, 9; attends Tatum’s lectures, 6; attends Sir H. Davy’s lectures, 8; acts as Davy’s amanuensis, 10; engaged at Royal Institution, 12; his foreign tour with Davy, 16; visits Paris, 18; visits Florence, 21; visits Geneva, 22, 28; returns to Royal Institution, 34; lectures at City Philosophical Society, 40, 43; loyalty to Davy, 42, 59, 269; begins original work, 46; falls in love, 46; his poem to Miss Barnard, 46; his wedding, 49; made superintendent of laboratory, 49, 98; discovers electromagnetic rotations, 51; elected F.R.S., 59; made D.C.L. of Oxford, 65; awarded Copley Medal, 69; declines professorship in London University, 66; receives a pension in Civil List, 72; appointed adviser to Trinity House, 67; appointed elder in Sandemanian church, 293; discovers magneto-electric induction, 112, 115; discovers magneto-optic rotation, 176; discovers diamagnetism, 186; readmitted to Sandemanian church, 297; exposes spiritualistic phenomena, 250; declines Presidency of Royal Society, 255; declines presidency of Royal Institution, 255; resigns professorship at Royal Institution, 259; resigns advisership to Trinity House, 259; resigns eldership in Sandemanian church, 259; decease and funeral, 260 ----, Robert, 1, 2, 6, 249, 250 ----, Sarah (Mrs. Faraday), 49, 50, 51, 223, 225, 255, 257, 291; letters to, 47, 48, 52, 53, 256 Faraday’s father, 1, 2, 224, 289 ---- mother, 1, 2, 12, 17, 22, 33, 41, 69, 289 Fatalism, 52, 288 Fees for professional work, 51, 61, 244, 274 Field, The magnetic; first use of this term, 188 Fishes, electrical, Researches on, 20, 139, 167 Fluids, Alleged electric and magnetic, 212, 216, 218 Foreign travel, 16, 17, 74, 224 Fox, Caroline, Reminiscences of, 235 _Fraser’s Magazine_ and Faraday’s pension, 72 Fresnel’s announcement, 105 Friday evenings at the Royal Institution, 33, 60, 100, 101, 149, 166, 170, 192, 203, 219, 220, 225, 232, 236, 259 Fuller, John, founds the Fullerian professorships, 36 Funeral, 260 G. Gases, Liquefaction of, 55, 91, 171 ----, Magnetic properties of, 204, 208 Gassiot, J. P., Reminiscences by, 13 German language, Views on the, 280 Gladstone, Dr. J. Hall, 69, 290 Glass, Researches on, 95 Glassites (_see_ SANDEMANIANS) Gold, Optical properties of, 219 Gravity in relation to electricity, 204, 220, 285 ----, Speculations as to, 195, 203 Grove, Sir Wm., 263, 269 Gymnotus, 167 H. Hachette, Letter to, 266 Hampton Court, House at, 257, 258 Hare, R., Letter to, 269 Harris, Sir W. Snow, 64, 269 Heat, Effect of, on magnetism, 208 Heavy-glass, 100, 176 Helmholtz, Prof. H. von, 282, 283