588 Professor Tyndall on Thomas Young. [Jan. 22, 



The following Inscription, written by Mr. Hudson Gurney, was 

 placed on a slab beneath the medallion by Sir Francis Chantrey in 

 Westminster Abbey. The same inscription, somewhat modified, was 

 placed on a marble slab in the village church of Farnborough, near 

 Bromley, Kent, where the remains of Dr. Young were deposited in 

 the vault of his wife's family : — 



SACRED TO THE MEMOEY OF 



THOi¥AS YOUNG, M.D., 



FELLOW AND FOREIGN SECRETAEY OF THE EOYAL SOCIETY, 



MEMBEE OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE ; 



A MAN ALIKE EMINENT 



IN ALMOST EVEEY DEPAETMENT OF HUMAN LEAENING. 



PATIENT OF UNINTEEMITTED LABOUR, 



ENDOWED WITH THE FACULTY OF INTUITIVE PERCEPTION, 



WHO, BRINGING AN EQUAL MASTERY 



TO THE MOST ABSTRUSE INVESTIGATIONS 



OF LETTERS AND OF SCIENCE, 



FIRST ESTABLISHED THE UNDULATOEY THEOEY OF LIGHT, 



AND FIEST PENETEATED THE OBSCUEITY 



WHICH HAD VEILED FOE AGES 



THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF EGYPT. 



ENDEARED TO HIS FEIENDS BY HIS DOMESTIC VIETUES, 

 HONOUEED BY THE WOELD FOE HIS UNRIVALLED ACQUIREMENTS, 

 HE DIED IN THE HOPES OF THE EESUEEECTION OF THE JUST. 



BORN AT MILVEKTON, IN SOMEESETSHIEE, JUNE 13tH, 1773, 



DIED IN PAEK SQUAEE, LONDON, MAY IOtH, 1829, 



IN THE 56th YEAE OF HIS AGE. 



