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Chemistry in King's College, London, but declined. The new- 

 Colleges in Ireland were ubout to be launched, and it was clear 

 that Andrews was the man maiked out as necessary, and this 

 same year he was appointed Vice-President in order that by his 

 knowledge and comnjon sense he should help to direct the course 

 and arrange the details of the new scheme. When the time 

 arrived for the appointment to the professorships, Andrews 

 naturally received that of Chemistry. In 1849, the birth year of 

 the University, he was elected to a Fellowship of the Koyal Society, 

 and it was in this year began that period of earnest and inspiring 

 teaching which so many of his old pupils remember with gratitude 

 and admiration. From this time his life flowed on, devoted to 

 his students and his researches. I need offer no proofs of the 

 estimation in which Andrews was held all over the world. Many 

 degrees and honours were showered upon him ; the thirty years 

 passed rapidly by and the burden of approaching old age began 

 to be felt, so that in 1879 he resigned and for six years lived in 

 retirement in Fortwilliam Park until his death in 1885. Perhaps 

 this is the time to say something of my own memories of the 

 great teacher. I was much past ordinary student age when I 

 entered the Engineering School, having already completed two 

 technical apprenticeshii)s. Before I entered Queen's College I 

 had twice listened to Andrews lecturing to the members of this 

 society. The first lecture was fifty-one years ago upon his own great 

 work on the continuity of the liquid and gaseous state, and was 

 a revelation of the extreme clearness of expression and power of 

 forcing an audience to be interested and eager to hear what he 

 was saying. I remember a remark made by the then President 

 of the society, Joseph John Murphy, of which I shall speak 

 when explaining this great research. The second lecture was a 

 beautifully illustrated and clear discourse on the then recently 

 invented Gramme ring, and its uses in electro-generating 

 machinery. It drove me to study Faraday, for which I am for 

 ever grateful. It followed therefore that I had some idea of the 

 man I was going to learn from, but I had not formed the full 



