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BRIEF SKETCH OF SIR GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES. 



raised himself from the position of a son of a country clergyman in 

 a remote part of Ireland to the very highest position in the World 

 of Science. That he had an unblemished reputation, and that he 

 was a sincere Christian need not be said. His character was known 

 and read of all men, and of him we may use the words of 

 Longfellow : — 



" Lives of great men all remind ns 

 We can make our lives sublime, 

 And, departing, leave behind us 



Footprints on the sands of time ; 

 Footprints that, perhaps, another 

 Sailing o'er life's solemn main ; 

 Some forlorn and shipwrecked brother 

 Seeing, shall take heart again." 



A Psalm of Life. 



The following are the more important communications read 

 before the Institute by its late President : — 



Special Address to the Institute. June 18th, 1885. 

 Annual Address. Trans. Vict. Inst., vol. xx. Ibid., vol. xxii. 

 " On the Perception of Light," the Annual Address for 1895. Ibid., 

 vol. xxix, 



"On the Eontgen Rays," Annual Address for 1896. Ibid., vol. xxx. 

 "On the Perception of Colour," Annual Address for 1898. Ibid., 

 vol. xxxi. 



E. H. 



