Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-09
PROF. TYNDALL DEAD.
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LONDON, Dec. 6.-Prof. John Tyndall
died Monday night at his house in
Haslemere, county of Surrey. He had
long been ailing and recently his vital
ity had decreased steadily. His death
was hastened by severe cold.
Prof John Tyndall, LII D., +. II. s, was
born about 1920 in the village of Leighlin.
bridge near Carlow, in Ireland His parents
were in very humble circumstances, but they
gave him the best education in their power
and sen him to school where he ac-
quired sound knowledge of mathe.
MATES. At the age of 10 he joined In the
capacity OF "civil assistant a division OF the
ordnance survey which was stationed in his ma.
tive town. In 1874 he was engaged by firm in
Manchester and for about three years he was
employed in engineering operations in connec-
ton With railways. In lsi7 he accepted an APP
pontment as teacher in Queenwood college in
Hampshire
In 1853, having been previously elected fell
low Of the Royal society, he was chosen pro-
fessor of natural philosophy in the royal insti-
tuition of Great Britain, and succeeded the
celebrated Faraday as superintendent The
publication of an essay on the cleavage Of slate
rocks was the proximate cause of his joining
hisfriend Prof Huxley in a visit to the glaciers
of Switzerland in 1856; and they afterward pub.
lished joint paper on the structure and mo-
tion of glaciers.
In 1859 he commenced his researches on radi-
ant heat, which disclosed relations previously
unthought of between this agent and the
gaseous form OF matter. Numerous memoirs
published in the philosophical transact tons"
are devoted to this subject
In 1872 Prof. Tyndall went on a lecturing tour
in the United States, in the course of which he
delivered thirty-tlve lectures, which returned
him S23, 100 After paying expenses q fund of
over $4,000 remained and this, before leaving
for Europe, the professor placed in the hands
OF a committee who we're authorized to ex.
pend the interest in aid Of students who de-
vote themselves to original research
On the occasion OF his receiving the honorary
degree OF d. G. L. from the university OF OK
ford, June IS, 1873, DR.. Heurtley, Margaret
professor of divinity, protested against
| the proceeding on the ground that Prof
| Tyndall had signalized himself by writ
| ing against and denying the cred
| ibility of miracles and the efficacy of prayer,
| thus contravening the whole tenor of that
book which, with its open page Inscribed
| 'Dominus illumi at o mea,' the university still
bears as her Device and therefore still processes
| to acknowledge as her guide "
He has written 1.-THE Glaciers of the Alps, "
| 1860; Mountaineering" 1851; "A Vacation
| Tour" 1862: Heat Considered a Mode OF
| Notion 1868; "On Radiation; the 'Rede' Lee
| ture, May 10, 1865" volume on Sound, "
| fourth edition, 1853; "Faraday as a Discov
| erer," Fragments of Science" "Notes on Elec
tricity" 1870; Notes on Light" 1871; Hours Of
| Exercise in the Alps" 1877 THE Forms OF
| Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and
| Glaciers" 1877; address delivered before the
| British association assembled at Belfast with
| additions and q preface" 1854: fragments o
| Science; Series OF Detached Essays, Ad
| dresses and Reviews" fifth edition, 1876, anc
| Essays on the Floating Matter of the Air il
Relation to Putrefaction and Infection, 1881
He married February 30 1876 Louisa Clsut
| Hamilton, eldest daughter Of Lord and Lady
| Claud Hamilton.