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ing over ten years, I held positions of great 

 responsibility [in different parts of the world], 

 but I consider my scientific tastes were formed 

 in youth, that is, from 16 to 21 years of 

 age." (a, f,h) 



(4) " From an early age I was addicted to 

 mechanical pursuits. In the last few years of my 

 schooldays I took to chemistry. Entered .... 

 college, expecting, after two or three years there, 

 to [join a relative's] business as calico-printer, 

 and gave especial attention to chemistry on that 



account I had never attended specially 



to physics until appointed professor of natural 



philosophy [This and subsequent similar 



advancement] determined me to devote myself 

 thenceforward definitely to physics, and not to 

 try for a chemical appointment . . . ." (a, d) 



(5) " Naturally fond of mechanics and of 

 physical science, in which all my study has taken 

 the direction of those departments bearing on 

 . . . . , owing to my feeling that through the 

 possession of special instruments for investiga- 

 tions in it, I could work to greater advantage ; 



