MEMOIR 



OF 



JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE, 



D.C.L. (Oxon.), LL.D. (Duel, et Edin.), F.R.S., Hon. F.R.S.E., 

 President of the Literary and Philosophical Society 



of Manchester, 



F.C.S., DOC. NAT. PHIL. LUGD. BAT., SOC. PHIL. CANTAB., 



SOC. PHIL. GLASC, INST. MACH. ET NAUP, SCOT. ET SOC. ANTIQ. PERTH, 



SOC. HONOR. INST. FR. (ACAD. SCI.), 



CORRESP. SOC. REG. DAN. HAFN. TAURIN, BOLON., SOC. PHIL. NAT. BASIL., 



SOC. PHYS. FR. PAR. ET HAL., 



ET ACAD. AMER. SCI. ET ARTIB. ADSOC. HONOR. 



BY 



OSBORNE REYNOLDS, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Mem. Inst.C.E., 



Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, 

 Professor of Engineering, Owens College, Manchester. 



MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: 

 36, GEORGE STREET. 



1892. 



