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Divide." Tyndall. who was born at lleighlin Bridge,

Survey for some years, made his first enlranee into seientitie
study at Queenswood College, llan'ipshire, going afterwards
to Marburg l'niyersity, Ilesse (‘assel, where he took a degree,
and soon eonnneneed writing; papers which attraeted wide at-
tention. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Soeiety in it ,
and a ymr later, Professor of Natu 'al llistorf at the Royal
lnstitntion. Natural philosophy was his life-study, and its
fascinatingr aspeets in eonneetion with glaeiers, light, heat,
aeousties, magnetism, and electricity, furnished him with
subjects of investigation which he never tired of pursuing.

Like most great men, Professor ’l‘yndall was an ineessant
worker, and was always at his desk by live o‘eloek in the
morning. Like his friend Huxley and others, members of
the splendid hie 'arehy of brains, who were contemptn‘aries
of his, he was an ardent lover of truth and freedom of
thought. His gift of a handsome sum, realized from a series
of lectures delivered by him in this country, for the purpose
of promoting: the study of natural sciences in Ameriez, was
an incident which revealed his unselfish character and devo-
tion to the grand purpt ‘e, of his life. He owed much of his
popularity to the ea . manner in whieh he was able to ex-
pound his theories, and is said to have eombined French
directness and lueidity in expression with Herman thorough-
ness of research, enablingr him to write fora wide publie. An
instaneeof his popularity maybe found in the, fact that some,
of his works have been translated into (‘hinese.

Professor Tyndall was a bachelor until fifty 'ix years of
age, when he married a daughter of Lord Ilamilton. He
has roused the enmity of dogmatic thinkers at times by his
extreme views on matters of natural phenomena, always
stoutly maintaining that the, laws of nature were immutable
and conducted upon principles which admitted of no teln-
porary suspension. Among: the honors showered upon
him were the dances of 1411.1). ot' (‘ainbridwe and l).(1.l.. of

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 OBI'I'UARY.

The death of Prof. TYNDALL, on December 4th, at his home
in Haslemere, Surrey, after an overdose of chloral, put an
end to a long period of failing health, involving insomnia.
John Tyndall was born August 21, 1820, in the village of
Leighlin Bridge, Carlow, Ireland. Ilis parents were poor,
and could give him only a common school education. In
1839 he took a position with the Irish Ordnance Survey. In
1844 he became a railway engineer. In 1847 he became a
teacherin Queenwood College, Ilants, a tetlmical school.
Here he met Dr. Frankland, and his studies were detinitely
turned in the direction of physical science. The next year

he went to Germany, and studied at B'Iarburg under Bunsen

and others. I’rom Marburg he went to Berlin and there
continued his studies under Magnus. Ilis tirst scientific paper
was on screw-surfaces, and his second a study in the mag-
netic properties of Crystals. The latter was published in
1850. He then returned to England, and settled in London,
where he became acquainted with Faraday. ln 1852 he was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1853 was
appointed a professor of natural philosophy in the Royal
Institution of Great Britain. lle afterwards succeeded
Faraday as Superintendent of that Institution. He had
already. as early as 1849, visited the Alps for recreation, and
the habit thus acquired lasted for the rest of his lifetime, re-
sulting, among other things, in that classic of mountaineer—
ing, “Hours of Exercise in the Alps" (1871). Ilis tirst
scientific expedition to the Alps was made in 1856, in com-
pany with Professor Huxley, and resulted in the joint treatise
“ On the Structure and Motion of Glaciers.” Other fruits of
his Alpine experiences were the “Glaciers of the Alps”
(1860), and “A Vacation Tour ” (1863). In 1859 he began
his researches in radiant heat, which resulted in the works,
“ IIeat as a Mode of Motion " (1863), “ On Radiation "
(1865), and “Contributions to Molecular Physics in the
Domain of Radiant lleat.” lle published a work on
“ Sound” in 1865, and a similar volume on “ Light " in 1870.
Other publications of this period were “ Faraday as a Dis-
coverer" (1868), “On the Scientific Use of the Imagina—
tion " (1870), the first volume of “Fragments of Science "
(1871),and “ The hormsof Water" (1872). Inthislatter year
he lectured in the United States, giving thirtyhve addresses
in all. These lectures were largely attended, and the net
proceeds, amounting to $23,000, were placed in the hands of
a committee to be used for the endowment of research in
American colleges. Cambridge had made him an I.L.D. in
1855 and Edinburgh in 1866; in 1873 Oxford made him,
despite the protest of the theologians, a I). C. I,. The Belfast
Address was given in 1874. In 1876 he married the eldest
daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton. He has held a number
of posts under the English government. Among his later
works may be mentioned “On the Transmission of Sound
by the Atmosphere” (1874), “ Lessons in Electricity "
(1876), “ Fermentation ” (1877), “ Essays on the Floating
Matter of the Air” (1881), and a second series of the
popular “ Fragments of Science ” (1892). C/H'mga Dial.

 

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