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On the conclusion of tbe lecture, a vote of thanks to Prof. Dewar 

 was moved by the Lord Chancellor, who said : — 



My Lord Duke, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, — I am very 

 happy indeed to be made the instrument of conveying your thanks 

 for the most interesting lecture we have listened to. I could not help 

 thinking while our lecturer was giving us an account of all these 

 wonderful things, that he was illustrating in his own person some- 

 thing which he had said. He pointed out how the torch of science 

 was passed on from hand to hand, how, for instance, Davy had handed 

 to Faraday some of the sources of those great discoveries which he 

 afterwards disclosed to the world ; and I thought that it required 

 some such successor to give adequate expression to the history of 

 Faraday's work. Faraday had many friends ; many of us have 

 listened to him in this theatre, as indeed I have had the privilege of 

 doing myself; and I think I may say that no one came within the 

 sphere of his kindly and gentle influence who did not become a 

 hearty and attached friend. But I should think that very few of 

 those friends would be able to give adequate expression to what he 

 had done, the discoveries he had made, and the ever increasing effect 

 which those discoveries had exercised upon the progress of modern 

 science. We have listened to-night to a most able exposition of 

 Faraday's work ; and I think that Prof. Dewar has shown that he has 

 in truth succeeded to that work, that he is worthy to receive that 

 torch and carry it on and give a brighter illumination to science than 

 it has ever yet received. I am sure that there is none here who will 

 not heartily join with your Grace in thanking Prof. Dewar for the 

 able, learned and lucid lecture in which he has explained to ignorant 

 people like myself Faraday's wonderful discoveries in science. 



Sir Lyon Platfaie, in seconding the motion, said : It is indeed 

 a great privilege to all of us to see the great progress which has been 

 made in the discoveries of Faraday during the last fifty years. Those 

 little tubes, containing the original liquefied gases which Faraday 

 liquefied under pressure and low temperatures were very important 

 and were considered at the time very remarkable productions. But 

 you see how the subject has since grown ; how carbonic acid, for 

 instance, first liquefied, has since been solidified so that it can be 

 handled like snow ; and you have seen the remarkable way in which 

 oxygen has been liquefied on the present occasion. An old Professor 

 of chemistry like myself can appreciate the wonderful manipulative 

 power which Prof. Dewar has displayed this evening. Even in the 

 chemical laboratory, with everything quiet around you, it is difiicult 

 to make these experiments successfully, but in a theatre of this kind 

 it is marvellous how everything goes wrong ; and if we had not had 

 a manipulator of great accuracy and knowledge, we could not have 

 had the gratification which we have enjoyed this evening. What 

 strikes me as being so excellent in my friend, and much more than 

 friend — for he is the greatest chemist that I ever produced, and I am 

 extremely glad to think that he looks up to his old teacher with 



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