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teaching of Dalton in chemistry. He and his 

 elder brother Benjamin were favourite pupils of 

 Dalton. They went to his house in the rooms 

 of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Manchester for regular daily lessons and were 

 a little disappointed at first when they found 

 that Dalton, instead 01 introducing them 

 straight away to the grandeur 01 the atomic 

 theory of chemistry, kept them to the grind- 

 stone, forced them to do their additions cor- 

 rectly, and held up to them as something 

 essentially necessary for them to learn, the practice 

 of trigonometry and the logarithmic tables. 

 James Joule and his brother got great good from 

 that early severe, almost hard, training by Dalton. 

 They were both full of original brightness and 

 acuteness in their observations. They went 

 through the country even before they came to 

 be pupils of Dalton, making memoranda of what 

 they saw and heard, an aurora borealis or a 

 wonderful thunderstorm, or sounds of artillery 

 or lightning, they could not tell which. Some 

 ot their journals they afterwards showed to 



