Lord Kelvin and his First Teacher in Natural Philosophy

Abstract

SOME interesting early recollections were related by Lord Kelvin on October 17, on the occasion of the unveiling of a stained glass window, by Henry Holiday, in the Bute Hall of the University of Glasgow in memory of John Pringle Nichol, LL.D., professor of astronomy, 1836–1859, and his son and daughter, John Nichol, LL.D., professor of. English language and literature, 1862–1889, and Mrs. Jack, who was born in 1837, in the University, and died there in 1901. Prof. J. P. Nichol was the author of numerous valuable works, including the famous book on the “Architecture of the Heavens.” The account which Lord Kelvin o gave of his own young days at Glasgow College is full of interest, and his testimony to the impulse he received from his early teacher will be an enduring, tribute to Nichol's memory.