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AS these words are being printed, the Jubilee of Lord Kelvin's professorship is being celebrated in the most enthusiastic and magnificent manner at Glasgow. Delegates from all parts of the world are present, and among them are many of the most eminent representatives of science at home and abroad. From Paris to Moscow, Canada to Mexico, India to Australia, the whole civilised world unites in congratulating Lord Kelvin on the great work for science and the good of his fellow men which he has achieved, and in offering good wishes that he may have health and strength for the continuance of his glorious career. Though for fifty years he has been Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow, has seen pass through his classes several generations of students, has been one of the greatest leaders in what has been pre-eminently a century of scientific discovery and advancement, has worked as few men can work, and withal has taken the keenest interest in all that ought to interest the true citizen of a great country, yet is his eye not dim, nor his natural force abated. It is the hope of all his friends, and of all the great army of scientific workers, who now are unanimous in doing him honour, that he may have before him many long years of happy and successful work.
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GRAY, A. Lord Kelvin. Nature 54, 151–152 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054151c0
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