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I shall never enter this Institution, and particularly this theatre, 

 without thinking of him, and the recollection of his friendship will 

 always be one of my most cherished memories. With regard to 

 Mrs. Tyndall, I fear that nothing we can say can prove any consola- 

 tion to her now ; but I hope the time may come when the sympathy 

 of so many devoted friends may bring some comfort to her. 



Dr. Edward Frankland said : After a knowledge of, and a 

 friendship with Tyndall extending over nearly half a century, I have, 

 of course, formed very definite opinions of his character. I first 

 met Tyndall in 1847, at Queenwood College, Hampshire, where, 

 for the first time in any school in England, experimental science 

 was taught. It was this which attracted both of us to that Institu- 

 tion, and led Tyndall, in the intervals of work, to embrace all 

 possible opportunities of acquiring some knowledge of chemistry. 

 He was bright, sociable, original and greatly in earnest, with a fund 

 of enthusiasm and humour. His individuality was so strong that I 

 have never known any one in the least like him. Fond of literature 

 and a devoted student of Carlyle and Emerson, also of Fichte and 

 Goethe through translations, his mind was then almost a complete 

 blank concerning physical science in any form. He worked in my 

 laboratory and I gave him lessons in chemistry ; in return he taught 

 me mathematics. We attended each other's lectures and became fast 

 friends. Eighteen months later we migrated to the University of 

 Marburg in Hesse Cassel to study chemistry under Bunsen, and 

 here Tyndall acquired a fair knowledge of qualitative and quantita- 

 tive analysis ; but the advent of the young and enthusiastic Knoblauch, 

 as professor extraordinary of physics at Marburg in 1849, diverted 

 his attention from chemistry to physics, in which science he found 

 more scope for his mathematical knowledge. From Knoblauch's 

 laboratory he passed to that of Magnus in Berlin. On returning to 

 England in 1852, he made the acquaintance of Bence Jones and 

 Faraday, and became professor of natural philosophy in this Institu- 

 tion in the following year. You, Sir, have so lucidly and graphically 

 described his subsequent career that there is no room for any observa- 

 tions of mine ; except perhaps this, that, commencing the elementary 

 study of experimental science at the age of 27, Tyndall stands almost, 

 if not quite alone as regards the number and importance of his 

 original investigations, and the brilliant position which he achieved 

 in the course of the following forty years as an expounder of scientific 

 truths. 



Professor Dewar also paid a touching tribute to the memory of 

 Dr. Tyndall, who had been for many years his personal friend, and 

 after referring to Tyndall's private life, he said : I have never seen 

 such abject idolatry of life, sympathy, and care expended by any 

 human being as that of Mrs. Tyndall for her husband. However 

 sad the disaster which caused the death of the Professor, it ought to 

 be some consolation to her to think how many times she had been 



