Which discussion society did young Faraday attend for lectures on science?

Young Michael Faraday attended lectures on science through the City Philosophical Society.

The society was founded in London by John Tatum, a scientific lecturer and instrument maker. It offered working people and ambitious artisans a way to study natural philosophy at a time when formal scientific education was largely reserved for the wealthy.

Faraday joined its activities while completing his apprenticeship as a bookbinder. The society helped him practise scientific discussion, hear lectures, and meet people interested in chemistry and physics. He later became an active participant and eventually delivered lectures there himself.

A common mix-up is with the Royal Society, Britain’s prestigious learned institution. Faraday later became a Fellow of the Royal Society, but that was a later achievement, not the discussion society that shaped his early scientific education. The Lunar Society was another important intellectual circle, but it was based mainly in Birmingham and was not Faraday’s youthful forum.