Gents Mag 1844 part 2 p.549

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1844 part 2 p.549 that the King had bestowed upon him a pension of 150l.; and at the preceeding meeting at Oxford, that the University had conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws, a step the more remarkable since he belonged to the sect of Quakers. At all the meetings of the British Association he has been present, and has always been surrounded with the reverence and admiration of all who feel any sympathy with the progress of science. May he long remain among us, thus to remind us of the vast advance which chemistry owes to him.' This was written in 1837, the year in which a severe attack of paralysis seriously impaired his powers; he last appeared among us at Manchester, when he received the respectful homage of the distinguished foreigners and others who were there assmebled." At a recent meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester the following resolution was come to:- "That it is desirable that a simple and suitable memorial should be placed in the ecemetery at Ardwick over the mortal remains of this illustrious philosopher and exemplary Christian; and that it is most desirable to found a professorship of chemistry in some public place in Manchester, to be named the 'Daltonian Professorship,' one object of which shall be to illustrate the atomic theory, and the discoveries of Dalton in connexion with other branches of physical science."
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