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unflinching faith has carried him on from first to last as an ad 

 vocate whose zeal never flagged. Sir Richard Glass was a 

 member of the firm of Glass and Elliot, which made half of the 

 first cable, and he is the manager of the company which has 

 successfully completed the task. His work is known to all 

 who practically were connected with the undertaking. He is 

 the recognised chief of all, and willingly recognised. Sir 

 Samuel Canning and Mr. Clifford accompanied the first expe- 

 dition. Sir William Thomson was on board the c Agamemnon ' 

 in 1858, and has freely spent time and money in forwarding a 

 work in which he saw a means of worthily employing the 

 powers of a mathematician, the experimental skill of a natu- 

 ralist, and the inventive faculties of a man of genius. His name 

 has already been frequently mentioned as first to make this 

 and that invention or improvement ; and not only has he 

 reaped with his own hand a meet harvest of scientific discovery, 

 but he has the satisfaction of having prompted others whose 

 work has been a supplement to his own ; and indeed he may be 

 said to have founded a new school of practical electricians in 

 England. Mr. Yarley came later into the field, but he too 

 worked hard, and his assistance during the long period of 

 depression from 1858 to 1865, and at Valentia during the last 

 expedition, together with his additions to the testing and speak- 

 ing instruments, give him strong claims. Mr. Willoughby 

 Smith, of whose beautiful system of testing it is difficult to 

 speak too highly, has only lately been placed in high command, 

 but indirectly, as electrician to the Gutta-Percha Works, from 

 first to last he has helped, and helped effectually, in improving 

 the materials employed. Mr. Chatterton, the manager of those 

 works, should not be passed by in silence. To these must be 

 added the well-known names of Captain Sir James Anderson and 

 Commander Moriarty, C.B., as well as those of the early pioneers, 

 Sir Charles Bright, Mr. Whitehouse, and Mr. de Sauty, and 

 last, not least, the Directors and Officers of the Atlantic 

 Company, the Anglo-American Company, and the Telegraph 

 Construction and Maintenance Company. The difficulties 

 these gentlemen have had to contend with do not admit of 

 being scientifically stated. They can indeed only be known 

 within a very narrow circle, but those who have been similarly 



