Show lti A GIANT GEN JUS PROF WILLIAM CROOKBS AND HIS FAMOUS TURK II hl 1Hhl th ilneoery of Ih Unnttrrfnl Plait ltrtrl ml Iy 1rnf Iln naen of tnna I t fable and lstoaaktg Neker itopjcmoii win Ham CTookewhoM f4 elentlflc genliM 1 r mode pcmilble the discovery of thn p I wonderful light of r t HoetilgPti his been I t widely known tot to-t t rars Indeedthere f1Jrr I are few men who hne achieved morn brilliant and MiliuWe renal In the liboralory than HIP dlsenvei of the tube nnlih la mm MI mueh talkeil of IrnfrMir Crooke na born In London Lon-don Il 1 years ago and In his boyhowl iHVdme Inteiented In pholugniph He look it ensue In the loyal l College of Chemistry under tr Hoffman nnd main benvrup assistant In I this tutor At n lip was appointed superintendent of She lladelllTi Observatory ai Oxford In ISM he fnnnded tha rhemlesl New end In HIM hTm Ihe editor of the floored Journnl of Helenre rrof > sor Cronki w1s horn with n lovn for rlglnil march He dlscnverel the new 11I111 l ihilllum while examining the residue from a nulphurlc amid work Ile wa hen made n follow of the ltoyl doelel III ISIS be daelo > d t many InleresHiiR matter In his Inter llcntlnis on repulsion resulting from radlallon In 1877 he lnvente1 th nthB I eu > e In A wwr that yenr before be-fore Hut Itoyal Sorely he wild he lull mieeemled In obtaining a vacuum so nearly approaching perfect lIon I that 11M 1 iJ 1 i ii lt Itt It-t 4 1 I r 1 f MISS NEIIIE I I 1AIttCEit = = press iro In It was only 04 millionth of on atmosphere It was found that In such nn extreme vacuum IRa paw Into nn nltragnseoua slate which Iro fcsor Crookcs described as radiant matter It was bean vacua that undo possible Ito Incandescent lamp He has written a small library every book of which ii I of walnut lo experimental and lommerclnl science tits anion cuiio before tho general public In the ThIs when ho undertook an Investigation Investiga-tion of thin phjslcal phenomena of spiritualism 11I1 Leek on tbo result of those experiment with lilt media of John ICing and Knty King wn wldcl reed on its publlrallun Hut I 3 ty 1 I r IHOP WILLIAM dtOOKKB whllo Ito sclentlflc world placed tho highest value on tubs experiments In other line It paid nn attention to the result ho obtained In his work on Iho occult slilo < of nature Iroiessor Crook namo can never be illwodated from IlocntgenH discovery 1 wean Ia huts tube was Ill baala vlte Is I perhaps the most patient and palnitaklnr ex ttuLIIWIW gJporrn tjme |