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Welcome to The Commons National Galleries of Scotland! Here's a c.1893 photo of RLS from our Photographic Archive, taken at his birthday party at Vailima, also posted here on The Commons ... -- Courtney

wonderful. I've seen a similar portrait at his house in Vailima Apia, Samoa where he is looking at the camera. perhaps there was a series of images taken at the time.

What eyes! Such a beautiful portrait by Smith.

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! -- Seen in a discussion of Flickr Commons. (?)

Brilliant to see the Galleries on the Commons! Just thought I would make a reciprocal connection between this image and the Robert Louis Stevenson set on our Flickr account [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/sets/72157604377830216/]

What a handsome man! There must be many photos of his public sculpture on Flickr: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steell

Extraordinary! The energy just jumps off the page!

Any EXIF data?? Jok3......the shutter must be long i think~!

What a Romantic photo! Not sure about the Napoleon pose though :-)

Hey, you dropped your phone.

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_... .

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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Science, Technology, History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

is he not a landlord of apublic house

Difficult to exaggerate how important a figure kelvin was.