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to be devoted to the carrying out of magnetical and 

 meteorological observations with self-recording instruments, 

 has proved to be of special value. 



Lord Justice Grove (1811-1896), while actively engaged 

 in practice at the Bar, found time to invent the electric 

 battery which goes by his name, and was, before the days 

 of electrodynamos, the most convenient appliance for the 

 production of large currents. Many of his electrical and 

 chemical experiments were of value, and his book on the 

 correlation of physical forces gives proof of a wide outlook 

 in science. 



William Spottiswoode (1825-1883), the head of the 

 well-known printing firm, was at the same time an eminent 

 mathematician, and his scientific attainments were sufficiently 

 distinguished to justify his election to the Presidency of the 

 Royal Society, an office which he held at the time of his 

 death. 



Edward Schunck was the typical man of independent 

 means who unselfishly devotes his whole time and wealth 

 to the pursuit of knowledge. He was born in Manchester 

 in 1820, his father having founded an important business 

 in that city. He studied chemistry in Germany, and shortly 

 after bis return to England, settled down to research work 

 mainly connected with the colouring matter derived from 

 plants. Alizarin, the colouring substance of madder, 

 attracted his first attention, and his investigations prepared 

 the way for its subsequent artificial production. 



He also made important additions to our knowledge 

 of the chemical composition of indigo and chlorophyll. 

 His laboratory, containing a finely ornamented room used 

 as a library, was beautifully fitted out for purposes of 

 research. Its contents were left to Owens College by his 

 will, and ultimately the laboratory was taken down and 

 re-erected as an annexe to the Chemical Laboratories of the 

 Manchester University, where it is now entirely devoted 

 to research work. 



Henry Clifton Sorby (1826-1909) was another of the 

 busy men of so-called leisure who devote their lives to the 

 pursuit of science. His instrument was the microscope, and 

 he began investigating the minute^structures of minerals 



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