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endowed the world-famed Cavendish Laboratory at 

 Cambridge as a memorial to his illustrious ancestor. 



Concerning the author's photographs of the now demol- 

 ished Cavendish House, the following quotations of letters 

 received by him may not be out of place : 



Professor J. J. Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the 

 Cavendish Laboratory, says : " I am greatly indebted to you 

 for the very interesting photographs of the house in which 

 Cavendish lived and worked. I shall have them framed and 

 put near a picture of Cavendish we have in the laboratory." 

 Sir Oliver Lodge writes that "they are an interesting 

 reminiscence of a great man. " Lord Rayleigh writes : 

 " He was a queer creature in many ways, but I have 

 always had the greatest admiration for his scientific 

 work." The Hon. R. J. Strutt, F.R.S., writes that " the 

 photographs are of much historical, scientific interest, and 

 as a great admirer of the wonderful precision of Caven- 

 dish's work, I am very pleased to have them." 



Such are the opinions of some of the foremost living 

 scientists concerning the work of Cavendish. 



His fortune, already alluded to, went to his cousin, 

 an ancestor of the ninth and present Duke of Devon- 

 shire. 



In conclusion, Galileo suffered for saying that the earth 

 revolved round the sun, but what would the Roman 

 hierarchy have done to Cavendish for daring to weigh it ? 



