I/O MEMORIAL STATUE IX MANCHESTER. 



family, at his residence, 12, Wardle Road, Sale, on the 

 evening of Friday, October nth, 1889. 



Joule was buried in the Western Cemetery on Wednesday, 

 October 16th. The funeral was strictly private, no public 

 announcement having been made as to when or where it 

 was to take place. The Society was represented by its 

 officers and other members, but besides these only the 

 family were present. Occurring late on Friday evening the 

 first intimation of Joule's death which was received, outside 

 his household, was on the Monday following, when obituary 

 notices appeared in the papers. On the same day the 

 President of the Society was privately informed of the 

 arrangements which had been made for the funeral. These 

 he communicated to the Council and Society at their 

 meetings, which took place in the ordinary course on 

 Tuesday, October 15, when resolutions of condolence with 

 the family were passed, and deputations appointed to attend 

 the funeral. 



At the same meetings resolutions were passed authorising 

 the preparation of a full memoir of Joule's Life and Works, 

 and appointing a committee to inaugurate the necessary 

 steps to secure a fitting memorial of Joule in Manchester. 



The committee had to consider the question whether the 

 memorial should be in the Society, or whether an effort 

 should be made to secure a public memorial in Manchester. 

 The latter course commended itself, and steps were imme- 

 diately taken to secure signatures to a requisition to the 

 Mayor to call a Town's Meeting. At first there was con- 

 siderable fear lest Joule's extremely retired life had left his 

 fellow-citizens ignorant of the honour which accrued to the 

 city and district from his life-long association. These fears 

 were, however, found to be groundless. 



