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neglected in estimating his value : he was not only an 

 investigator, he was also a teacher of science in the 

 highest and widest sense of the word. He did not wish 

 science to be confined to the study and lecture-room, 

 he desired that it should find its way into all conditions 

 of life. In his active interest for technology, in his 

 zealous participation in the work of the Agricultural 

 Board, this phase of his efforts was plainly reflected, as 

 well as in the great trouble he took in the preparation 

 of experiments, and in the ingenious contrivance of the 

 apparatus required for them* 



His collection of instruments, which subsequently 

 passed into the possession of the University, and is 

 at present used by me as his successor, is the most 

 eloquent testimony of this. Everything is in the most 

 perfect order : if a silk-thread, a glass tube, or a cork, 

 are required for an experiment, one may safely depend 

 on finding them near the instrument. All the appa- 

 ratus which he contrived is made with the best means 

 at his disposal, without sparing either material, or the 

 labour of the workman, so as to ensure the success of 

 the experiment, and by making it on a sufficiently large 

 scale to render it visible as far off as possible. I recol- 

 lect very well with what wonder and admiration we 

 students sa<w him experiment, not merely because 

 all the experiments were successful and brilliant, but 

 because they, scarcely seemed to occupy or to disturb his 



