LARMOR
W. RAMSAY
SILVANUS P. THOMPSON
JOHN PERRY
JAMES MARCHANT (Hon. Sec.)
To which the Dean replied:
_The Deanery, Westminster, S.W. December 2, 1913._
Dear Mr. Marchant,--I have pleasure in informing you that I
presented your petition at our Chapter meeting this morning, and a
glad and unanimous assent was accorded to it.
I should be glad later on to be informed as to the artist you are
employing; and probably it would be as well for him and you and
some members of the Royal Society to meet me and the Chapter and
confer together upon the most suitable and artistic arrangement or
rearrangement of the medallions of the great men of science of the
nineteenth century.
Nothing could have been more satisfactory or impressive than the
document with which you furnished me this morning. I hope to get
it specially framed.--Yours sincerely,
HERBERT E. RYLE.
Mr. Bruce-Joy, who had made an excellent medallion of Dr. Wallace during
his lifetime, accepted the commission to fashion the medallion for
Westminster Abbey, and it was unveiled, by a happy but undesigned
coincidence, on All Souls' Day, November 1 1915, together with
medallions to the memory of Sir Joseph Hooker and Lord Lister. In the
course of his sermon, the Dean said--and with these words we may well
conclude this book:
"To-day there are uncovered to the public view, in the North Aisle of
the Choir, three memorials to men who, I believe, will always be ranked
among the most eminent scientists of the last century.
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