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NATURE 



[March i6, 191b 



MEMORIALS OF MEN OF SCIENCE IN 

 . WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 



IN November last memorial tablets to Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, Lord Lister, and Dr. Alfred Russel 

 Wallace were unveiled in the north aisle of West- 



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Fig. I. — Sir Joseph Hcoker tablet in Westminster Abbey. 



reproduced. The limited size of the tablets has 

 prevented the employment of inscriptions other 

 than those upon the accompanying illustrations. 



The memorials were unveiled without any public 

 ceremony, but at the afternoon service of the 

 same day the Dean of Westminster referred to 

 them. He said that Hooker, Lister, 

 and W'allace would always rank 

 among" the most eminent men of 

 science of the nineteenth century ; 

 and they were all men of a singu- 

 larly modest character, who worked 

 without regard to recognition. 



It may be of interest here to 

 mention some other memorials of 

 men of science in Westminster 

 Abbey. Sir John Herschel and 

 Charles Darwin lie side by side in 

 the nave (north aisle), where alsc 

 rest the remains of John Hunter, 

 John Woodward, and Sir Charles 

 Lyell, of whom there is a bust. 

 Near Darwin's memorial three othei 

 scientific workers are commemor- 

 ated, J. P. Joule by a tablet, J. C. 

 Adams by a medallion, and Sii 

 George Stokes by a portrait-head. 

 The grave of Newton is before the 

 choir screen, one of the most con- 

 spicuous spots in the Abbey, and 

 near it Lord Kelvin was buried. 

 Close by is a memorial window 

 erected to Kelvin. The great statue 

 of James Watt is in the Chapel 

 [D. Hv/c,-. of St. Paul; and in St. Andrew's 



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Fig. 2. — Lord Lister and Dr. A. R. Wallace medalliorki in Westminster Aibey. 



minster Abbey. By the courtesy of the Right Rev. 

 the Dean of Westminster, Dr. H. E. Ryle, photo- 

 graphs of these memorials have been taken by 

 the Dean's verger, Mr. D. Weller, and are here 



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Chapel are memorials of Sir Humphry Da\>, 

 Thomas Young, and Sir James Simpson. The 

 body of William Spottiswoode lies under the floor 

 of the south transept of the Abbey. 



