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REFERENCES IN THE BIBLE TO CANDLE OR LAMP. 



1 . The candle of the wicked soon put out. 



2. The candle of the Lord. " Oh that I were as in months 

 past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle 

 shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through 

 darkness." 



3. The golden candlestick of the Hebrew Temple. 



4. The seven gold candlesticks of the New Testament. 



5. In heaven " they need no candle." " The Lamb is the light 

 thereof." " Light is sown for the righteous." 



" Perfect in all the courtesies of society, and able to delight 

 the most refined circles with his exquisite wit and knowledge, 

 he could turn with still greater relish to correspond with chil- 

 dren, or to enjoy the wonder of some ragged city-mission audi- 

 ence at a voluntary scientific lecture." 1 



Many and various were the contributions to science during 

 the years of which we speak. A detailed estimate of the greater 

 number of them will be found in the Appendix, from the pen of 

 Dr. J. H. Gladstone. To one of the first, ' On a simple mode 

 of constructing Skeleton Models to illustrate the systems of 

 Crystallography,' the Eoyal Scottish Society of Arts awarded a 

 medal of five guineas' value, believing the invention likely to 

 be of much service. Before the same Society a paper was read 

 in 1845, ' On the employment of Oxygen as a means of Resus- 

 citation in Asphyxia.' In 1848 he brought before it Suggestions 

 on the use of the Electro-Magnetic Bell in conducting Sound ; 

 and in later years, 1853 and 1854, his series of Researches on 

 Colour- Blindness, for which the Society conferred on him the 

 highest honour, the Keith prize, value 30 ; and in addition a 

 grant of money, to be expended on the inquiry, was placed at 

 his disposal. In 1855 the Researches were published, 2 with 

 some additions, and form a valuable contribution to previous in- 



1 ' Macmillan's Magazine,' January 1860. 



2 ' Researches on Colour-Blindness, with a Supplement on the Danger attending the 

 present System of Railway and Marine Coloured Signals.' Sutherland and Knox, 

 Edinburgh. 



