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cooling of bodies in steady currents of air, and C. M. Smith's experiments 

 on conduction of heat in insulating material. 



These and other similar pieces of research by his successive assistants 

 and demonstrators could never have been carried out, had Tait not generously 

 given us unrestricted access to his laboratory. Once we gained his confidence, 

 we could roam at will through the whole department, and appropriate for our 

 own purposes any apparatus which for the moment was not being used. 

 There could be no truer way of encouraging research. 



T. 



