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and Walthers, the peak that will long keep alive the memory of his 

 Alpine feats with the name of the " Pic Tyndall." 



Most of these ascents, and his other climbing adventures, and 

 he had not a few, were recorded in his charming work, " Hours of 

 Exercise in the Alps" (1871). 



Another athletic feat was his expedition at Niagara, when he 

 worked, by the south side of the gorge of the Horseshoe Fall, round 

 the promontory upon which there stood the Terrapin To.wer, and 

 under the foot of the Fall. 



In addition to his Royal Institution Professorship he held 

 numerous other appointments at different times. In 1855 he was 

 made one of the Examiners under the Council for Military Education. 

 In 1864 he was given the post of Scientific Adviser to the Board of 

 Trade, an office which he resigned in 1883, because he denounced as 

 dishonest the action of the authorities in regard to some new patents. 

 With characteristic generosity he had offered, when he accepted the 

 office, to serve without pay, if his salary could be devoted to the 

 benefit of the sailors. It is needless to say that he received numerous 

 honours from the leading scientific societies at home and abroad ; he 

 was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1864, while 

 he was a doctor of four universities. Halle made him Ph.D., Oxford 

 D.C.L., and both Cambridge and Edinburgh LL.D. In connection 

 with the last it may be remembered that he received the diploma 

 from the hands of Thomas Carlyle, who that year held the office of 

 Rector. With Carlyle Tyndall was very intimate, and he reverenced 

 him as a father. After Mrs. Carlyle's sudden death he carried off" the 

 broken-hearted old philosopher to the south of France, and when 

 Froude's publication of her letters had thrown a shadow on the fame 

 of Carlyle, no one stood up more manfully than Tyndall in the defence 

 of his old teacher and friend. The bust of Carlyle on the Chelsea 

 embankment was unveiled by Tyndall about this period, and the 

 prophecy at the close of his speech was one of those that greatly help 

 their own fulfilment. He compared Carlyle in nobility of form and 

 ruggedness of strength to the Bel Alp that rises at the back of his 

 chalet on the Eggishorn, and the shadow that overhung the memory 

 of Carlyle to the bucket of water whipped up into a cloud that could 

 temporarily obscure the mountain outline ; but he predicted that the 

 mist would soon be swept away, and the character of Carlyle stand 

 out as clear and spotless as before. 



Tyndall's connection with the British Association is mainly 

 recollected owing to his famous Belfast address in 1874, in which he 

 discussed the relations of contemporary scientific thought and revealed 

 religion ; the orthodox party took alarm at the views therein expressed 

 being proclaimed so publicly before the world ; and Tyndall was 

 pelted with pamphlets, scolded in sermons, and denounced in the 

 press. The address was unquestionably a materialistic manifesto, 

 and it is a remarkable sign of the progress of the last twenty years, that 



