Inaugural Address of Sir William Thomson in Nature 4, 1871 [METEORITES AS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE ON EARTH]
London: Macmillan, 1871. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound volume, LORD KELVIN’S SUGGESTION THAT LIFE ON EARTH WAS SEEDED BY METEORITES, “MOSS-GROWN FRAGMENTS FROM THE RUINS OF ANOTHER WORLD” (Kelvin, p. 270). The lengthy speech is an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science and is printed here..... More