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THE memorial window to Lord Kelvin, subscribed for by engineers in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, was dedicated at a special service in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday. The window is in the east bav of the nave on the north side. The light from it falls upon the graves of Kelvin and Isaac Newton, and immediately beneath it are the graves of Darwin and Herschel. The window, which was designed by Mr. J. N. Comper, is chiefly ecclesiastical and historical in character. The lights contain two large figures under canopies; and in front of the pedestals of these two figures are tablets held by angels, containing the words:—“(i) In memory of Baron Kelvin of Largs, (2) engineer, natural philosopher, b. 1824, d. 1907.” Beneath these again are the arms of Lord Kelvin and of Glasgow University.
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Kelvin Memorial Window . Nature 91, 515 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091515a0
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