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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: his reappearing, and how memory retains his voice and image like
things of yesterday. Others, the well-beloved too, die and are
progressively forgotten; two years have passed since Fleeming was
laid to rest beside his father, his mother, and his Uncle John; and
the thought and the look of our friend still haunt us.
APPENDIX.
NOTE ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF FLEEMING JENKIN TO ELECTRICAL AND
ENGINEERING SCIENCE. BY SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, F.R.S., LL D., ETC.,
ETC.
IN the beginning of the year 1859 my former colleague (the first
British University Professor of Engineering), Lewis Gordon, at that
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