The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-01-10
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lDOInCeQ Se2cneE Oh elementary
agricultural, and engineering
!soienee at Queenwood College,
i where be remained for about .
tyear, when he repaired with =
friend, Professor Franklin, to Ger
many to hear Bunsen's lectures,
land pursue long-contemplated
lcourse- of study. At Marburg,
first under Bunsen, Knoblauch,
Stegmann, and ultimately at Ber-
I'm, in the laboratory of Magnus,
did Tyndau spend three years in
close and constant study, one re-
suit of which was the publication
OF. two essays which at once gave
their author distinct place in the
scientific world. These were. en-
titled "Screw Surfaces" and Son
the Magneto-optic Properties of
Crystals, and the Relation of Mag
netismi and Diamagnetism to
Molecular Arrangement" But
Mr.. Tyndan was too enthusiastic
pedestrian to expend ali his
time and energies in investigating
the phenomena of diamagnetism.
and the polarity OF the diamag-
netic force, and in 1S49 we find
him stealing away from the heat
ed atmosphere and gases Of the
laboratory, 60 inhale the fresh
wind and climb the.slippery sleeps
of Alpine Wildernesses. In 1851 he
returned to London, where he met
Faraday for the frat time. In2the
following year he became = Fellow
Of the RoySi Society, and one year
later was elected to the professor
ship of Natural Philosophy in the
Royal Institution of Great Britain,
at the head of which Faraday then
was. His visit to Switzerland in
lS49, and more Immediately, the
publication of an essay on the
cleavage of slate rocks, led to his
accompanying his friend. Profess
sor Huxley, in a visit to the Alps
in 1856; q joint account of which,
with special reference to the struc-
ture and motion of glaciers, was
afterward published by the two
travellers. Each of the three
years in succession saw Professor
Tyndall again in Switzerland, pur-
suing his Investigations amid snow
and ice. In 1859 he assembled the
Montanvert, overlooking the Mer
de Glaze, near Chamouni, and re-
maiEed there for three days amid
binding snow, experimenting on
the vast sea Of ice. A vivid and.
most interesting account of his
perilons ventures and experiences,
his splendid Investigations and
conclusions on these occasions was
published in 1860, under the title
of "The Glaciers of the Alps" q /
book that has been long out Of
print, ana the first by which Pro
lessor Tyndall became we'll known
to the general public. In 1859 he
began his researches on radiant
heat, and discovered the existence
of relations previously. unsuspect-
ed between that agent and gaseous
matter. A chief element in these |
inquiries was the action upon
radiant heat of transparent
aqueous vapor, which being diff
fused through the air checks the
flow OF terrestrial heat into space,
and makes the globe inhabftable.
For his conclusions on this sub |
ject, and on the relations of rad
liant heat to molecular structure,
our readers are referred to the me-
moirs, some seven in number,
which Professor Tyndan publish
ed in the Philosophical Transac-
tions. Mr.. Tyndall, besides being
a Rumford Medallist, is a member
of q great many foreign societies.
Among native honors, that have
been conferred upon him, we may
instance the degree of. LID. of
Cambridge in 1855, and the same
of Edinburgh in 1866, when Mr..
Thomas Carlyle was installed lord |
rector of that University. In, ad. |
dition to the works already, emu
merated, Mr.. Tyndall has written
various memoirs, presented by
him from time to time to the Roy
al Society,"; as also, Mountaineer- |
ing, (1S61;) 4 Vacation Tour,
(1S62;) Heat considered as q
Mode of Motion, (1s63;) On Ra-
diation: the "Rede" Lecture, May |
Is. 1865, (1S65;) Sound, 1885,
Faraday as Discoverer, Frag-
ments of Science, aHd Hours Of |
Exercise in the Alps, (1s71.-l
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