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and capacity." This subject was brought 

 before the Royal Society and published in 

 their annual transactions. 



In 1829, he published his work entitled, 

 " System of Geology," and also works on 

 44 The Philosophy of Manufactures, and " On 

 the Cotton Manufactures of Great Britain." 



Then in 1830 and 1831 he gave to the 

 world his great book., u The Dictionary 

 of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines," which 

 has gone through several editions, and 

 been translated into most of the European 

 languages. He was the intimate friend of 

 Sir Humphrey Davy, Dr. Wollaston, and 

 Dr. E. D. Clarke. He was a member of the 

 Astronomical Society, and other learned and 

 scientific societies. At Glasgow, he succeeded 

 Dr. Birkbeck as Andersonian Professor of 

 Chemistry. 



This, then, was the master under whom 

 Shanks studied, an enthusiastic teacher, 

 accurate, painstaking, laborious, a man of 

 broad culture and wide views, an author who 

 occupies a first rank in technological literature, 

 and whose name we associate with Payen, 

 Knapp, Wagner, Watts, and Muspratt. 

 Shanks was always of an enthusiastic nature, 

 there was a genuine glow of healthy 



