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about two square feet in a dark corner, the only one 

 which he could place at our disposal in the English 

 Walhalla to commemorate Joule's work. And so a 

 simple tablet is inserted in one of the side walls just below 

 the effigy of Charles Darwin ; and thus within a foot or 

 two of one another are placed the simple and unattractive 

 acknowledgments of work done, the like of which hath 

 not been seen and the importance of which cannot 

 be reckoned. The ridiculous, if it were not the 

 pathetic, position thus accorded to two men who have 

 conferred inestimable benefits not only on our own 

 country but on the world at large, when compared 

 with the grandiose monuments to political, naval, and 

 military nonenities, is, it must be confessed, a some- 

 what humiliating reflection on the lack of apprecia- 

 tion of science shown in the English Temple of 

 Fame. But, after all, this is of little moment, for 

 the names of Darwin and Joule will live for ever in 

 the minds and hearts of all those who appreciate 

 scientific worth. 



A statue of Joule by Gilbert was unveiled by 

 Lord Kelvin in Manchester on December Qth, 1893. 

 Kelvin had been Joule's most intimate scientific friend, 

 and may be said to have discovered him. I moved a 

 vote of thanks for the address, saying that when I first 

 came to Manchester the work, and even the name of 

 Joule, were scarcely known there, and contrasting this 

 with the honour now paid to him, 



