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1896. To descant upon the scientific merits of this 

 great man would here be out of place. Suffice it 

 to say that he has long been, and still remains, the 

 acknowledged and beloved leader of British science. 

 Representatives of science and learning all the world 

 over assembled at Glasgow to do him honour, and 

 I had the satisfaction of representing the Univer- 

 sity of London. It was a touching sight to see Kelvin, 

 then Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow, and now its Chan- 

 cellor, " capping" the distinguished foreigners in the 

 hall of the University where he had so long lived and 

 worked and had thus immortalised his name in the 

 annals of British science. 



A second jubilee was that of Kelvin's great friend 

 and co-worker, George Gabriel Stokes, not only 

 Newton's successor as Lucasian professor at Cambridge 

 but also as President of the Royal Society and as 

 Member of Parliament for the University. This 

 celebration, which took place on June ist, 1899, at 

 Cambridge, was no less interesting and remarkable 

 than that of Kelvin. Indeed, these two ceremonies 

 in honour of the great British twin-brethren of science 

 were sights to delight the heart of all lovers of 

 humanity. On this occasion, too, I represented the 

 University of London. 



Another celebration, not of the first jubilee but of 

 the ninth jubilee of the University of Glasgow, took 

 place in June, 1901, when the University had reached 

 the respectable age of four and a half centuries. 

 Here too Lord Kelvin was naturally a prominent 

 figure, and appropriately gave an oration on another 

 great Glasgow man, James Watt. On this occasion 

 the University was good enough to confer the degree 

 of Doctor of Laws upon me. 



Still another Scottish mission. Everybody has 



