480 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. 



William Thomson. But sufficient, I think, has been 

 here said to show that, in conferring upon Mr. Joule 

 the highest honour of the Royal Society, the Council 

 paid to genius not only a well-won tribute, but one 

 which had been fairly earned twenty years previously. 1 



1 Lord Beaconsfield has recently honoured himself and England 

 by bestowing an annual pension of 200 /. on Dr. Joule. 



