A BLACK-BORDERED ADMISSIONTICKET FOR "THE FUNERAL OF MR. SPOTTISWOODE" AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY, THURSDAY, JULY 5TH, 1883.

THE CARD, 4 7/8 X 3 5/8, BEARS THE WAX SEAL OF G. G. BRADLEY,DD, DEAN OF THE ABBEY.

WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE WAS AN "ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICIST, ... BORN IN LONDON ON THE 11TH OF JANUARY 1825 . . . IN 1871 HE BEGAN TO TURN HIS ATTENTION TO EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS, HIS EARLIER RESEARCHES BEARING UPON THE POLARIZATION OF LIGHT AND HIS LATER WORK UPON THE ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE IN RARIFIED GASES. HE WROTE A POPULAR TREATISE UPON THE FORNI~R SUBJECT FOR THE "NATURE" SERIES [1874]. IN 1878 HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, AND IN THE SAME YEAR PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, OF WHICH HE HAD BEEN A FELLOW SINCE 1853. HE DIED IN LONDON OF TYPHOID FEVER ON THE 27TH OF JUNE 1883, AND WAS BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY". 

He was also a partner in the printing and publishing firm Eyre & Spottiswoode. Spottiswoode arranged for Charles Darwin's state funeral, his burial in Westminster Abbey and was one of his pallbearers. 

THE ADMISSION TICKET IS LIGHTLY SOILED FROM AGE. NO CREASES, CHIPS, DAMAGE