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phrase as 'the handmaid of religion.' He looked on the study of 

 science as, I might even say, part of his religion, as the pursuit 

 of truth, truth only, truth for her own sake; a pursuit to be followed 

 up independently, fearlessly, faithfully, to whatever results patient 

 and enlightened, but impartial and honest, investigation should lead 

 the inquirer. He shrank from all attempts to divert, or to confuse, 

 or to limit the aim of the student by putting before him any other 

 one consideration than that of the pressing forwards to what was 

 clear, true, and demonstrable within his own department. . . . 

 And to all who followed truth in the same spirit he turned with an 

 instinctive and cordial sympathy. He won men's hearts, we hear, by 

 an unassuming and unselfish gentleness. But he did more. The 

 variety of mental powers which enabled him to hold the threads of 

 the many branching lines of the ever expanding studies of his age, 

 which touched with poetry his treatment of the most abstruse themes, 

 and gave a rigorous accuracy to his management of the smallest detail 

 of his business, was united to an attractiveness and transparency of 

 character, and a spotless integrity and uprightness which secured 

 men's confidence. . . . And if he lies not far from those whose 

 genius — very different to his own — has enlarged the bounds of human 

 thought, and embodied sometimes in immortal clothing the various 

 chords of human feeling and emotion, it is something to feel that 

 rarely beneath this roof has been laid one of a purer or more spotless 

 life." 



A. B. K. 



Peter William Barlow, whose death occurred on May 19th, 1885, 

 was the eldest son of the late Professor Barlow. 



He was educated at private schools, and having at an early age 

 selected civil engineering as his profession, became a pupil of the late 

 Mr. Henry Palmer, Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, under 

 whom he was engaged on the Liverpool and Birmingham Canal and 

 the then New London Docks. 



The active demand for railways which followed the opening of the 

 Liverpool and Manchester Railway, caused him to be employed in the 

 preliminary surveys and studies of the county of Kent, with reference 

 to a railway to Dover, and in 1836 he acted as resident engineer under 

 the late Sir William Cubitt, on the central division of the London and 

 Dover Railway, which formed the nucleus of the present South 

 Eastern system. He subsequently became resident engineer of the 

 whole line, and afterwards the engineer- in- chief, during which period 

 he constructed the North Kent, the Tunbridge and Hastings, and 

 many other lines in connexion with the South Eastern system. He 

 also constructed the Londonderry and Enniskillen, and the London- 

 derry and Coleraine, and other railways^ 



