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THE Duke of Devonshire, of whose death every one was sorry to hear, maintained throughout life the interest in science which had been fostered by his studies as an undergraduate at Cambridge, where he distinguished himself equally in mathematics and in classics. He acted as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science, whose reports might have marked an era in our national progress if there had been a scientific department of the Government to give effect to them. At Cambridge he did what he could to encourage scientific study by his splendid gift of the Cavendish Laboratory. The Duke was the first President of the Iron and Steel Institute; and the Owens College, Manchester, owed much to the zeal and liberality with which, on every suitable occasion, he sought to promote its interests.