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42 endowed the world-famed Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge as a memorial to his illustrious ancestor.

Concerning the author's photographs of the now demolished Cavendish House, the following quotations of letters received by him may not be out of place:—

Professor J. J. Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Cavendish Laboratory, says: "I am greatly indebted to you for the very interesting photographs of the house in which Cavendish lived and worked. I shall have them framed and put near a picture of Cavendish we have in the laboratory." Sir Oliver Lodge writes that "they are an interesting reminiscence of a great man." Lord Rayleigh writes: "He was a queer creature in many ways, but I have always had the greatest admiration for his scientific work." The Hon. R. J. Strutt, F.R.S., writes that "the photographs are of much historical, scientific interest, and as a great admirer of the wonderful precision of Cavendish's work, I am very pleased to have them."

Such are the opinions of some of the foremost living scientists concerning the work of Cavendish.

His fortune, already alluded to, went to his cousin, an ancestor of the ninth and present Duke of Devonshire.

In conclusion, Galileo suffered for saying that the earth revolved round the sun, but what would the Roman hierarchy have done to Cavendish for daring to weigh it?