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Birth and Parentage Glasgow and Cambridge Universities Honours 

 at Cambridge Professorship at Glasgow University Cooling of the 

 Earth Natural Philosophy Sizes of Atoms J. J. Thomson's Work 

 on Corpuscular Eadiations Law of the Dissipation of Energy 

 Vortex Motions His Work in Physics Law of Retardation 

 Mirror Galvanometer Syphon Eecorder The Atlantic Cables 

 Knighthood Mariner's Compass Quadrant Electrometer Tide- 

 predicting Machine Deep-sea Sounder Kilowatt Balance Multi- 

 cellular Electrostatic Voltmeter His Fortune " The Secular 

 Cooling of the Earth" Bakerian Lecture His Papers F.R.S. 

 Copley Medal Honours His Marriage Created a Peer Orders 

 of Knighthood Character His Lectures His Jubilee His Views 

 on Nature Joule's Electrical Researches Death Burial in West- 

 minster Abbey Inscription on the Grave Kelvin and Electrons 

 or Fractional Atoms British Association Paper . . .185 



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