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The Mayor, Mr. Alderman Mark, took up the matter 

 cordially, and over three hundred signatures, including those 

 of all the leading residents, were appended to the requisi- 

 tion. The meeting was held on November 25th, 1889, in 

 the Mayor's Parlour, and was largely and influentially 

 attended, and it was unanimously resolved to have a 

 memorial of Joule, in the form of a white marble statue, to 

 be a companion to Chantrey's statue of Dalton. A com- 

 mittee having been appointed to raise funds, the money 

 was readily subscribed, the list of subscribers containing 

 three hundred names ; and the execution of the statue was 

 entrusted to Mr. Alfred Gilbert, A.R.A., whose model was 

 approved in the summer of 1891. 



Immediately after Joule's death it was felt that it would 

 be only fitting that a national memorial should be placed 

 in Westminster Abbey, and the Council of the Royal 

 Society having taken the initiative, the necessary authority 

 has been obtained to erect a memorial tablet immediately 

 adjacent to the medallion in memory of Darwin. At the 

 same time the Council of the Royal Society has raised a 

 fund for the establishment of a memorial of an international 

 character commemorative of the life and work of Joule, to 

 have for its object the encouragement of research in 

 Physical Science. 



There are two known portraits in oil of Joule. One by 

 G. Patten, 1864, in the possession of the Society, from 

 which the engraving prefixed to this Memoir is taken ; 

 the other by Collier, 1882, in the possession of the Royal 

 Society. There is also the excellent engraving by Jeens, 

 published in 'Nature,' in 1882, and again in 'Joule's 

 Scientific Papers.' There are also several very good photo- 

 graphs taken in later life, particularly one taken by Lady 



