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1876 volume was also the outcome of the work, though in 

 that portion Foster did not join.] 



His treatment of Thermodynamics, as in the Article 

 4 Heat ' o£ Watts's Dictionary of Chemistry, contained 

 several interesting and suggestive features— at a time when 

 that subject was comparatively in its infancy. 



His interest and useful work in connexion with the 

 Electrical Standards Committee of the British Association 

 must be well known. 



Many other things he did : but after all his desire to 

 help senior students, and those members of the Staff who 

 came under his personal influence, was perhaps the most 

 prominent feature of his life and the one I have most 

 pleasure in remembering : his house in the Hilldrop Road, 

 Camden Town, was a centre of simple and kindly 

 hospitality. Not at all likely to be deceived by mere 

 plausibility, and of a very critical and shy disposition, 

 he formed his judgement of men, and when it was favourable 

 nothing that he could do to help them was too great a call 

 upon his time. 



Further details of his life and work are contained in an 

 Article — presumably by his colleague and collaborator 

 A. W. Porter, F.R.S. — which appeared in ' Nature ' of 

 Feb. 20, page 189. 



Long and well did Carey Foster serve The Philosophical 

 Magazine, and he must have acted as referee for an 

 immense number of papers. Of Dr. William Francis senior 

 he was an intimate friend, and gave him the benefit of counsel 

 and support through difficult negotiations at a time when 

 the policy of the Conductors of the Magazine was passing- 

 through what might have been a revolutionary period. He 



