Abstract
JAMES THOMSON BOTTOMLEY, who died in Glasgow on May 18, was born in Belfast on January 10,1845. His father was William Bottomley, of Belfast, and his mother a sister of the late Lord Kelvin. He was educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he had a distinguished career and was gold medallist at the degrees of B.A. and M.A. He started his scientific career by becoming assistant to Prof. Andrews at Belfast, afterwards a demonstrator of chemistry and physics in King's College, London, and in 1870 he came to the University of Glasgow to act as Arnott and Thomson demonstrator in the Department of Natural Philosophy, at the head of which was his uncle, Sir William Thomson. He held this position until 1899, when Lord Kelvin resigned from his professorship.
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