Memorial to John Dalton

Abstract

Two years ago, on the occasion of the centenary of the death of John Dalton (see Nature, 154, 103 ; 1944), the Society of Friends arranged to erect a memorial stone of his memory in the quiet graveyard at Pardshaw Hall close by his birthplace, Eaglesfield, near Coalermouth, Cumberland.'? Dalton was educated at the Quaker School at Eaglesfield and was a te Sfler there before he removed first to Kendal and therein 1793 to Manchester, where he spent the remainder of his life. At his death on July 27, 1844, he was buried in the public cemetery at Ardwick, but it is considered by some that he would have preferred to be buried in his native county. Owing to the War the plan made in 1944 for a memorial stone had to be postponed, but is now to be carried out. The stone will bear his name, places and dates of birth and death, and the epitaph “Not for an age but for all time : This to his memory”.