888 Address of Sir Wm. Thomson at the Glasgow Meeting. 
dations. I was much struck with the prevalence of paten 
inventions in the Exhibition: it seemed to me that every good 
become the nursery of useful inventions for the wor 
I should tell you also of “Old Prob’s” weather warnings, 
which cost the nation 250,000 dollars a year; money well s ‘ee 
urvey, no one would for a moment think of proposing 
? 
_And the United States Naval Observatory, full of hee 
highest science, under the command of Admiral Davis - mit 
get on to precession and nutation, I had resolved to ° 
