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some public demonstration of honor in the town he had 

 so long adorned, and his declining years suggested a permanent 

 memorial. In 1834 his friends decided on having a marble 

 statue, which should present a correct likeness, and for this 

 purpose Chantrey was selected as the most suitable sculptor. 

 Chantrey seems to have entered on the task with pleasure, 

 and he has done it well. This statue is in the entrance hall 

 of the Royal Institution, in Manchester ; the trustees having 

 charge of it on condition that no one shall be refused per- 

 mission to look at it. Dr. Henry says the likeness is more 

 ideal than the reality, a refinement being given to the coun- 

 tenance which did not exist in the bust which Chantrey first 

 took and used as a model when engaged on the full figure. 

 Dr. Henry's intimate knowledge of Dalton must prevent any 

 one from entertaining a very different opinion, but a daguerreo- 

 type profile now before me taken from life,* shews not only the 

 marked features of the thinker, which no one has denied as 

 they were striking, but that peculiar refinement which gives 

 the idea of the student and the gentleman. This small photo- 

 graph on a silver plate, is exactly similar to the head so 

 beautifully engraved by Stephenson, I suppose indeed that 

 it served as the copy ; every expression is the same, and every 

 fold ofthe abundant white hair, nor can I see that the engraver 

 has increased the refinement, although he has probably some- 

 what heightened the forehead. 



In the same year, I believe, he was presented at court, a 

 place that seemed scarcely to suit such a man, but he seems 

 to have had no desire to evade any of his natural claims to 

 honor, taking them as a necessary consequence of his work, 

 neither too highly elated like the great majority who are 

 honored, nor painfully retiring like Cavendish. 



Being a Quaker, and not able to wear a sword, he was 

 taken in the scarlet robes of an Oxford Doctor of Laws, and 



* ThU belongs to Mr. John Parry, who assisted in taking it. 



