Note 39 — Chapter VI · CAMBRIDGE—THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY.

The Chancellor continued to take to the end of his life a warm interest in the work at the laboratory. In 1887, the Jubilee year, as Proctor—at the same time I held the office of Demonstrator—it was my duty to accompany the Chancellor and other officers to Windsor to present an address from the University to Her Majesty. I was introduced to the Chancellor at Paddington, and he at once began to question me closely about the progress of the laboratory, the number of students, and the work being done there, showing himself fully acquainted with recent progress.