GREAT SCIENTIST’S DEATH

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2067, 19 December 1907, Page 2

GREAT SCIENTIST’S DEATH

United Press Association —Copyright (Received Dec. 18, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 18. ' The death is,announced of Lord Kelvin. [The lit. Hou. Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.0., D.C.L., F.R.S., was one of the most famous of British scientists, having been for many years an indefatigable worker in the interests of science, Kis enthusiasm lasting to the end of a Hong life He occupied the post of Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Glasgow University from 1876 to 1899, and front 1890 to 1895 he was President of the Royal Society. He was the author of “Electrostatics and Magnetism,” “Elasticity,” and many. pajiers on mathematical and physical subjects.] IS OUR POSITION ON THE SEA , SECURE? MR. HALDANE THINKS NOT. DIFFICULTY OF KEEPING TWOPOWER STANDARD. United Press Association—Copyright (Received Dec. 18, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 18. Mr. Haldane, in the course of a speech at Hanley, said the time might come when it would not be -so easy as to-day to command a twopower standard in the navy. Germany had a population of nearly sixty millions to our forty-four millions, and the United States would soon have a population of a hundred million. It would be verv hard for us with forty-four millions to maintain a two-power standard against two nations with a combined population of a hundred and sixty millions. They may not bo able in days to come to depend wholly and absolutely on the navy with the completeness of to-dav, and should the time arrive it would be on the home defence forces that they would have to rest their trust.