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century later, in 1846, began in this University the career 

 of William Thomson, Professor of Natural Philosophy 

 and Member of Senate for fifty-three years, who is at 

 the present day the foremost representative of physical, 

 and especially of electric, science, the Right Honourable 

 Lord Kelvin, a Peer of the Realm, and Chancellor of 

 the University. Franklin, in the eighteenth century, 

 with his hempen thread proved the identity of the 

 lightnings of heaven and the electricity of earth; Kelvin, 

 in the nineteenth, by the electric cable united the Old 

 World and the New. 



With great goodwill, therefore, the Members of the 

 Senatus Academicus associate themselves in spirit with 

 the Society founded by Franklin in celebrating with due 

 honour the Two Hundredth Anniversary of his birth, 

 and desire to be represented on the occasion by the fol- 

 lowing graduates of the University, now residing in the 

 Western Hemisphere: 



Thomas Gray, B.Sc, Professor of Dynamical Engi- 

 neering in the Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre 

 Haute, Indiana, U. S. A. 



William R. Lang, D.Sc, Professor of Chemistry in 

 the University of Toronto, Canada. 



Duncan B. MacDonald, B.D., Instructor in the 

 Semitic Department of Hartford Theological Semi- 

 nary, Connecticut, U. S. A. 



