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A STATUE of Lord Kelvin, which has been subscribed for mainly by the public of Belfast, is to be unveiled to-day (Thursday) in the Botanic Gardens, Belfast. The Chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast (the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.P.), will preside, and Sir Joseph Larmor, M.P., F.R.S., will perform the unveiling ceremony, and deliver an address. The statue is the work of Mr. Bruce Joy. Invitations to the ceremony have been issued to the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Belfast, to the Senate and professors of the Queen's University, Belfast, and to a number of leading men of science.—The statue of Lord Kelvin erected by the contributions of his fellow-citizens in Glasgow and the west of Scotland has been placed in position by the side of the new Kelvin Avenue, which traverses the Kelvingrove Park beneath Gilmorehill, close to the University of Glasgow. The statue will be unveiled on October 8 next, by the Right Hon. A. Birrell, Lord Rector of the University, and an address on Kelvin will be subsequently delivered by the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, Gifford lecturer in the University.—The Kelvin memorial window in Westminster Abbey will be unveiled on July 15.