The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . r and prizeman in 1865,and fellow of his collegein 1866. In 1879 he wasappointed orofessor ofexperimental physics atCambridge, a post he helduntil 1884. He succeededTyndall in 1888 as pro-fessor of natural philos-ophy in the Royal Institution, London. A memberof the Royal Society, he presided, in 1884, over theAssociation for the Advancement of Science. Be-sides many papers contributed to the Transactionsof the Royal Society and other scientific publica-tions, Lord Rayleigh wrote an important work onThe The
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . r and prizeman in 1865,and fellow of his collegein 1866. In 1879 he wasappointed orofessor ofexperimental physics atCambridge, a post he helduntil 1884. He succeededTyndall in 1888 as pro-fessor of natural philos-ophy in the Royal Institution, London. A memberof the Royal Society, he presided, in 1884, over theAssociation for the Advancement of Science. Be-sides many papers contributed to the Transactionsof the Royal Society and other scientific publica-tions, Lord Rayleigh wrote an important work onThe Theory of Sound {2 vols., 1877-78; 2ded. 1894),and in 1891 edited Professor Clerk-Maxwells famoustreatise on Heat. With Professor Ramsay he dividedthe distinction of having discovered a new elementin the atmosphere labeled argon, the existenceof which was announced at the meeting at Oxford,in August, 1894, of the British Science his share in this discovery, Columbia College,New York, at the instance of the National Academyof Sciences, awarded Lord Rayleigh, in 1895, the. LORD RAYLEIGH. 556 RAYMOND — READ
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