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demy in January, 1884, and is also a Member of the Royal Scottish Water Colour Society. [Illustration: AGE 24. _From a Photo. by Ovinius-Davis, Glasgow._] [Illustration: AGE 32. _From a Photo. by Fradelle & Marshall, London._] [Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photograph._] [Illustration: AGE 20. _From a Drawing by Carl Hartmann._] SIR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS ABEL, BART., K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. BORN 1827. [Illustration: AGE 28. _From a Photo. by Maull & Co., London._] Sir Fredk. A. Abel, Bart., who has lately been prominent before the public in connection with the recent opening of the Imperial Institute, of which he has been Organizing Secretary from 1887, was born in London in 1827, and is known principally in connection with chemistry and explosives. His published works are: "The Modern History of Gunpowder," 1866; "Gun Cotton," 1866; "On Explosive Agents," 1872, "Researches in Explosives," 1875; and "Electricity Applied to Explosive Purposes," 1884. He is also joint-author with Colonel Bloxam of a "Handbook of Chemistry." Sir Frederick Abel has been President of the Institute of Chemistry, the Society of Chemical Industry, and the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians. He was appointed Associate Member of the Ordnance Committee in 1867; and is Chemist to the War Department and likewise Chemical Referee to the Government. In 1883 he was one of the Royal Commissioners on Accidents in Mines, and was President of the British Association at the Leeds meeting, 1890. He was created C.B. in 1877, Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, in 1883, knighted in the same year, and raised to the rank of Baronet at the opening of the Imperial Institute. [Illustration: AGE 50. _From a Photograph._] [Illustration: AGE 65. _From a Photo. by Barraud, London._] LORD KELVIN. BORN 1824. [Illustration: AGE 28. _From a Photograph._] William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, was born at Belfast on the 26th of June, 1824. His father was a distinguished mathematician, and was Professor of Mathematics, first in Belfast, and afterwards in Glasgow University. At a very early age, Lord Kelvin showed extraordinary mathematical ability; and he passed with great distinction, first through the University of Glasgow, and then through Cambridge, where he gained the Second Wranglership and the first Smith's Prize. He became Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow in 1846, at the age of twenty-two; a
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