Notes

Abstract

WE are fortunate in being able to publish the appreciative notice of the late Sir George Stokes's scientific work, contributed by Lord Kelvin to another part of the present issue. So long ago as 1875 (vol. xii.) Sir George Stokes was one of our Science Worthies, and the account of his career then given is now supplemented by the record of his life's work and estimate of its influence on scientific progress, which Lord Kelvin has sent us. The funeral at Cambridge on Thursday last was a striking ceremony, in which men of distinguished eminence in many branches of knowledge took part, as will be seen from the list given on pp. 345, 346, of some of the people present. It is but rarely that such an assembly is drawn together, and the presence of so many men of light and leading showed the high regard in which Stokes was held, and testified to a widespread desire to do honour to his memory. It is inexplicable that no attempt was made to find a place for the body in Westminster Abbey. Great by his works and personality, Stokes was a man whose memory the nation should delight to cherish, and if such men as he are not buried at Westminster, it is difficult to under stand who should find a place there.