. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ^ at his time did not exist as an inde-pendent science. What we have now seen, however, seems to demon-state that even geology has ever)^ reason to appreciate what Linnehas done and accomplished as one of the founders of this science. SS292—SM 1908 48 Smithsonian Report, 1908.—Tlionnpson. Plate William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. THE KELVIN LECTURE:« THE LIFE AND WORK OFLORD KELVIN.* (With 1 plate.) [Delivered April 30, 1908. Abridged by request and revised for the Smithsonian Insti-tution April 6, 1909.] By Prof.
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ^ at his time did not exist as an inde-pendent science. What we have now seen, however, seems to demon-state that even geology has ever)^ reason to appreciate what Linnehas done and accomplished as one of the founders of this science. SS292—SM 1908 48 Smithsonian Report, 1908.—Tlionnpson. Plate William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. THE KELVIN LECTURE:« THE LIFE AND WORK OFLORD KELVIN.* (With 1 plate.) [Delivered April 30, 1908. Abridged by request and revised for the Smithsonian Insti-tution April 6, 1909.] By Prof. SiLVANus P. Thompson, D. Sc, F. R. S.,Past President of the Inatitution of Electrical Engineers. On the ITtli of December, 1907, aged 83 years, died WilliamThomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs. Adequately to set forth the life and work of a man who so earlywon and who for so long maintained a foremost place in the ranksof science were a task that is frankly impossible. The greatnessof a man of such commanding abilities and such profound influencecan not rightly be gauged by his contemporaries, however intimatelythey may have known him. But if by the very circumstance thatwe have lived so near to him we are debarred from rightly estimatinghis greatness, we at least have the advantage over posterity that wehave been able to speak with him fact to face, to learn at fir
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