He is willing to engage himself on the same terms as given to Mr.Payne at the time of quitting the Institution.
'Resolved,--That Michael Faraday be engaged to fill the situation lately occupied by Mr.Payne, on the same terms.' [2] Faraday loved this word and employed it to the last; he had an intense dislike to the modern term physicist.
[3] To whom I am indebted for a copy of the original letter..