Proceedings of Belfast Natural History and Philoaophioal Society, 1920-1921 



8th March, 192 1. 



In Chemical Lecture Theatre, Queen's University. 

 The President, Professor Gregg Wilson, in the Chair 



Dr. THOMAS ANDREWS : THE GREAT CHEMIST AND 



PHYSICIST, 



By Henry Riddkll, M.E., M.I.M.E 



Hon. Treasurer of Society. 



(Abstract) 



[Some apparatus used by Dr. Andrews for his famous experimentB were 

 on exhibition in the lecture room.] 



It is right at times for tlie people of a nation, the citizens of 

 any town, and the members of a Society like ours, to look back 

 upon their history and bethink themselves of the men who have 

 gone before them, to use as the text for their meditations those 

 words from Ecclesiasticus, " Let us praise famous men and the 

 fathers who begot us." And there is no time more suitable to 

 us for such a purpose than this, the Centenary Year of our Society, 

 and so the Council have arranged to publish a memorial volume, 

 in which will be found complete lists of our members, with short 

 biographies of the best known men, and a statement of the great 

 work they have done for their generation and for the world. 

 And we have a right to be proud of such men, for example, as 

 John Templeton, William Thomson, Robert Patterson, Wy villa 

 Thomson, R. 0. Cunningham and others in the study of Natural 

 History, John Purser, Peter Guthrie Tait, James Thomson and 

 Joseph D. Everett, in the realms of Physical and Mathematical 

 Science, while the name of Thomas Andrews stands out upon 

 our roll, the great investigator in Chemical Physics. 



