...to complain of the neglect which his labours had experienced in this country. " I also," says he, " should claim some right to participate in the compliment...only feel it a sort of anticipation of posthumous bine, which I have never particularly coveted."* Six weeks afterwards, the same letter which gave him...

...conveying the medals to Fresnel, Young did not retrain from indicating his feelings, when he said, "I also should claim some right to participate in the compliment...since my principal experiments were made, I can only teel it a sort of anticipation of poftliutnous fame which I have never particularly coveted." " Six...

...to complain of the neglect which his labours had experienced in this country. " I also," says he, " should claim some right to participate in the compliment...of a century is past since my principal experiments LIFE. 2 D were made, I can only feel it a sort of anticipation of posthumous fame, which I have never...

...experiments hâve for a time undergone in this country. I should also daim some right to participate in thé compliment which is tacitly paid to myself in common with you by this adjudication, but considering lhat more than a quarter of a century is past since my principal experiments were made, I can only...

...complain of the neglect which your experiments have for a time undergone in this country. I should also claim some right to participate in the compliment...of posthumous fame, which I have never particularly coveted. "f It would seem to be only through the strange chances by which allotments of honor and glory...

...on his death-bed) in 1827, Young, as foreign secretary of the Royal Society, wrote to him : ' I also should claim some right to participate in the compliment...considering that more than a quarter of a century is passed since my principal experiments were made, I can only feel it a sort of anticipation of posthumous...

...common with you by this adjudication, but, considering that more than a quarter of a century is passed since my principal experiments were made, I can only...of posthumous fame, which I have never particularly coveted.' In order further to apply some of his scientific researches to practice in the spring of...

...admits that as it is more than a quarter of a century since his principal experiments were made he can only feel it 'a sort of anticipation of posthumous fame, which I have never particularly coveted'. A reciprocal honour came to Young in the same year in the shape of his election as one of...