Abstract
With the death of Lord Kelvin—long known as Sir William Thomson—a master in science has gone from among us. but it will be long ere the impetus of his fruitful life ceases to influence the world of knowledge. His was one of those cases in which the promise of the future was early shown. The son of a distinguished mathematician, coming of a vigorous Scotch-Irish farmer stock, Thomson was born at Belfast June 25, 1824. While yet young his father removed to. Glasgow to take the chair of mathematics in that university, and there young Thomson received his early education. From Glasgow, where he had already made himself known to science by his mathematical and physical papers, he entered St. Peter's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1845 with the highest mathematical honors. Shortly after he was elected to a fellowship in his college, which he retained until
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