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A BRONZE bust of Michael Faraday, by Mrs. Feridah Forbes, has been presented by Sir Robert Hadfield to the Royal Society and now stands in the Society's rooms. It will be recalled that, about the time of the celebration in 1931 of the centenary of the discovery by Faraday of electromagnetic induction, Sir Robert produced a work entitled “Faraday and His Metallurgical Researches”, which included an account of Faraday's life, of the conditions under - which he worked and the men with whom he associated. The Royal Institution, the scene of most of Faraday's labours, has a bust and also a statue of Faraday, but the Royal Society had a portrait only. Sir Robert Hadfield therefore added to the debt which scientific workers already owe him for his memorial volume to Faraday by commissioning Mrs. Forbes to make a bronze bust, which has now been presented to the Royal Society.
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Bust of Michael Faraday. Nature 137, 737 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137737b0
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