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and would ask them, and upon informing them that 

 they were expected to attend service in the morning, 

 they both expressed great unwillingness to do so, 

 Bunsen saying that he had not been inside a church 

 for seven years, the last time being at the marriage 

 of his niece, and that he really didn't know how to 

 behave ! So I told Mr. Arnold that I was afraid we 

 should not be able to manage it, as I had invited people 

 in Manchester to meet my friends. Mr. Arnold, to 

 my dismay, then said : " I have arranged it all ; you 

 can get out of chapel before the communion service, 

 and so you will be able to catch your train." I then 

 went to my friends and told them in German that there 

 was no getting out of it, that they would have to 

 attend service in the morning, and that they must 

 make up their minds to it. So next day, to my great 

 amusement, Bunsen appeared in a costume he very 

 seldom indulged in, tail-coat, white tie, &c., &c., and 

 on his hands a large pair of white kid gloves, and thus 

 arrayed he accompanied us to chapel. The sight in 

 the chapel at Rugby of all the boys in surplices is 

 certainly a very interesting one, and my German 

 friends were much impressed, Bunsen saying to Kirch- 

 hoff afterwards, " Do you know, I really felt quite 

 devout." "Oh, nonsense," said Kirchhoff; "you were 

 only sleepy." 



Kirchhoff was, by common consent, one of the 

 first scientific minds in Germany. He remained at 

 Heidelberg until 1875, when he became Professor of 

 Theoretical Physics in the University of Berlin. For 

 many years he had not been strong, and had to go on 

 crutches for some time in consequence of an injury to 

 his foot. He died at Berlin in October 1886. 



Bunsen had an irrepressible dislike to having his 

 portrait painted, though he did not mind being photo- 



