The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10
PROFESSOR JOHN TYNpALL.

The death of the eminent scientist
and lecturer, John Tyndall. at Surrey,
England, December 4, was duly an
nounced in our dispatches and brief
mention made of his life and labors.
The following, however, clipped from
an eastern exchange, will give more
extended epitome of his useful career:
In the death Of Professor John Tyn-
dali, England loses one of the most
celebrated scientists who has lived in
Great Britain since the time of New
ton. In those momentous departments
light, and electricity, Professor Tyndall
has given to the world discoveries that
will render his name famous throughout
the centuries. The correlation between
radiant heat and light is perhaps the
most important discovery due the re-
searches of Professor Tyndall.
John Tyndall. LII. D. F. R. S., was
born seventy-three years ago in the
hamlet of bridge, near Car
low, in Ireland His parents were very
poor. He went to school until he was
16 years old, and early showed strong
inclination for mathematics, in which he
gained a thorough knowledge of the
rudimentary branches. When 10 he got
a situation as civil assistant in the di-
vision Of the Ordinance Survey station
ed in his native town Five years later
he worked as g civil engineer for a
railroad operated by a Manchester
firm: He was appointed in 1947 a
teacher in the newly-founded Queen
wood college of Hampshire. The fol-
lowing year he left England with DR..
Franklin, the chemist of the college,
and went to the University of Mar
burg, in Prussia, where they studied
under Bunsen and other celebrated
professors of the natural sciences.
Later Tyndall continued his researches
in the laboratory of Maguns, at Berlin.
Then he experimental on the little
known subject of magnetism and dia-
magnetism. His work had alread made
the name of Tyndall well known among
the prosecutors of scientific problems,
and he was chosen a fellow of the
Royal society. In 1853 he was elected
professor of natural philosophy in the
Royal institution of Great Britain.
Then he succeeded the famous cleo
tr1cian Faraday as superintendent.
This same year he received the de-
gree of LII. D. from Cambridge. In
1856 he visited Switzerland with Pro
fessor Huxley, and upon their return
the two noted naturalists published a
joint pamphlet on the structure and
motion of glaciers. Christmas day,
1859, he discovered after three days
investigation during a binding snow
storm the distance which the celebrated
Mar de Glaze moved in winter
This same year Professor TyndalI
began his researches upon radiant heat,
in which e gave to the world the dis
covery of hitherto unsupported rela-
lationS- between heat and the gaseous
Of tor Tn, 10 10
l.. L. D. of Edinburgh. In 1872 Pro-
fessor Tyndall- delivered series of
thirty-fiye lectures in the United States,
which Melted him above expenses over
$4,000. This money he gave to Har-
ward and other American colleges to
form funds for the purpose of helping
poor students who devote themselves
to original research In the following
year Oxford conferred upon the distin-
guished scientist the honorary degree
of D. L. G. February 20, 1876. he mar
ried Louisa Claud Hamilton. the eldest
daughter Of Lord and Lady Claud Ham
ilton. The following year he was elect
ed president of the Birmingham and
institute. For that succeeding
twelve months and for many years
Professor Tyndall acted as scientific adj
wiser of the board Of trade and of the
lighthouse authorities. l 1883 he re-
signed all these offices. He has written
some twenty books and pamphlets,
among witch are the following: THE
Glacier Of the Alps. Mountaineering,
"a Vacation Tour Heat Cosidered
as Mode of Motion; te 'Rede' Lee
ture. May 16, 1865 Sound . "Faraday
as a Discoverer,'' Fragments of
Science" Notes on Electricity Notes
on Light" Hours of Exercise in the
Alps" THE Forms of Water in Clouds
and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers;;' Essays
o the Floating Matter of the Air in
Relation to Putrif1ca.tion and Infec-
ton Forms of Water