Death of Professor Tyndall
(PER PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) London, December 5. Professor Tyndall, the eminent scientist, is dead. [Professor John Tyndall, L.L.D., D.0.L., I'.R.S., was born August 21st, 1820, in the village of Leigblin-bridge, near Carlow, in Ireland, His parents were in very moderate circumstances, but they gave him a sound English education. At the age of nineteen he joined, in the capacity of "civil asassistant," a division of the Ordnatco Survey which was stationed in his native town. In 1853, having been previously elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, he was chosen Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, succeeding the celebrated Faraday as superintendent. He and his friend Professor Huxley visited the glaciers of Switzerland in 1856. On the occasion of his receiving the honorary degree of D C.L. from the University of Oxford, June 18th, 1873, Dr Heurtley, Professor of Divinity, protested against the proceeding on the ground that Professor Tyudall "had signalised himself by writing against and denying the credibility of miracles and the eflicacy of prayer." He was the author of many scientific works.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 134, 6 December 1893, Page 2
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