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The National Gallery and Royal Institution (Royal Scottish Academy), Edinburgh by National Galleries of Scotland Commons
The National Gallery and Royal Institution (Royal Scottish Academy), Edinburgh William Donaldson Clark, about 1858

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Greyfriars Bobby

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  • 88 older comments, and then…
  • Elizabeth Thomsen said:
    "Let His Loyalty and Devotion be a Lesson to Us All" Bobby was a Skye Terrier whose master, John Gray, died in 1858. Bobby was so devoted to his master that for fourteen years Bobby lay on the grave in Greyfriars Cemetery , leaving only for food. Baroness Angelia Georgina Burdett-Coutts, President of the Ladies Committee of the RSPCA, visited Edinburgh on several occasions to see Bobby. The Baroness received permission from the City Council to erect a granite fountain with a statue of Bobby on top by the graveyard as a lasting memorial to the loyal little terrier Bobby. The original sculpture is in the Museum of Edinburgh. Greyfriars Bobby -- Download the classic 1912 book by Eleanor Atkinson from the ManyBooks.net website. (Digitized by Project Gutenberg.) Greyfriars Bobby -- 1961 Disney movie by Internet Movie Database Greyfriars Bobby -- Movie released in the UK in 2006 Greyfriars Bobby -- Website
  • BigBean said:
    Hi, this photo has been mentioned in a discussion thread in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!
  • atomicules said:
    How weird. I was just reading about Greyfriars Bobby last night in my daughter's school book!
  • Photography JC said:
    Superb, thank you for sharing this fine work
  • jasohill said:
    Wow. I didn't know anything about this until I saw this photo. What a touching story.

Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, 1824 - 1907. Scientist, resting on a binnacle and holding a marine azimuth mirror

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  • BobMeade said:
    Looks like this instrument is based upon Lord Kelvin's work and patents. At the Persistent URL the National Galleries of Scotland has this note : "He was also the partner of a Glasgow firm that made measuring instruments from his own patents" And here is some of his published work on such instruments: zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/terrestrial_magnetism_and_the_... .
  • Fumbling Kitty said:
    hero
  • jamica1 said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Science, Technology, History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • tel b1 said:
    is he not a landlord of apublic house
  • jamica1 said:
    Difficult to exaggerate how important a figure kelvin was.

Stronachlachar, Loch Katrine

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  • John Hughes said:
    Wonderful to see these stereographs! (Works really well at about arm's length from my screen.)

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