WILLIAM THOMSON 

 BARON KELVIN OF LARGS 



P.C, O.M., G.C.V.O., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., LL.D., D.C.L. 



BORN JUNE 26, 1824 ; DIED DECEMBER 17, 1907 

 BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY 



On the death of Lord Kelvin there passed 

 away one who will always remain identified 

 with the remarkable progress achieved by 

 science during the nineteenth century. At 

 the celebration, in June 1896, in honour of 

 the jubilee of his professorship at Glasgow, 

 Lord Kelvin referred to his original contri- 

 butions to science " as a record of persevering 

 endeavour to see below^ the surface of matter." 

 This endeavour resulted in profoundly modi- 

 fying some of the conditions of life for many 

 of the inhabitants of this world, in virtue of 

 his extraordinary faculty of applying to prac- 

 tical matters the fruits of his researches. In 



