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work of Reynolds can doubt that it embodies ideas of value, 

 but it is to be feared that their significance will hardly be 

 appreciated until some future investigator, treading a parallel 

 path, recognises them with the true sympathy of genius, and 

 puts them in their proper light. 



Prof. Reynolds, owing to the failing state of his health, 

 withdrew from the active work of his chair in 1905. His last 

 years were spent in retirement at Watchet, Somerset, where he 

 died on February 21st, 19 12. 



He had been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1877, and 

 received a Royal Medal in 188S. He was made an Honorary 

 Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1881, and received 

 the Degree of LL.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1884. 

 An admirable portrait by Collier, presented by scientific friends 

 and admirers from all parts of the kingdom, hangs in the hall of 

 the Manchester University. H. L. 



Sir William John Crossley was the second son of Major 

 Francis Crossley, of Glenburn, Dunmurry, County Antrim. His 

 father, formerly of the East India Company's service, came of 

 an old Lancashire family. 



Born on April 22nd, 1S44, at Dunmurry, William John 

 Crossley was educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, and 

 afterwards at Bonn. He then commenced, at the age of nine- 

 teen, an apprenticeship at the engineering works of Sir William 

 G. Armstrong, at Elswick, and there received a four years' course 

 of training. In 1867 he commenced business in partnership 

 with his brother Francis, who had purchased an india-rubber 

 machinery works in Manchester, but for some years the brothers 

 did not meet with much success. In addition, they paid some 

 attention to improvements in flax-scutching machinery. Their 

 doggedness, however, was rewarded. In 1876 they secured the 

 English patent rights of the Otto gas-engine, and, setting them- 

 selves to improve upon Dr. Otto's designs, the business prospered 



