Excerpt from Lessons in Electricity at the Royal Institution, 1875-6
More than fifty years ago the Board of Managers of the Royal Institution resolved to extend its usefulness, as a centre of scientific instruction, by giving, during the Christmas and Easter holidays of each year, two courses of Lectures suited to the intelligence of boys and girls.
On December 12, 1825, a Committee appointed by the Managers reported 'that they had consulted Mr. Faraday on the subject of engaging him to take a part in the juvenile lectures proposed to be given during the Christmas and Easter recesses, and they found his occupations were such that it would be exceedingly inconvenient for him to engage in such lectures.'
Faraday's holding aloof was, however, but temporary, for at Christmas 1827 we find him giving a 'Course of Six Elementary Lectures on Chemistry, adapted to a Juvenile Auditory.'
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