Excerpt from Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Vol. 6: Friday, 6th January, 1893 When he finally settled down in London he made literature lecturing and science once more his mode of livelihood, and amongst all my contemporaries I remember no one who worked more strenuously or persistently than be. He seemed to me to take no rest, and I know he had a very hard struggle; for neither literature nor science pay their votaries magnificently. Both make demands on every moment of life. But Williams never complained and never seemed to me to be out of humour. He became a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and was soon a man Of mark there. In London, as in Birmingham, his labours were diffuse. It was as if he could not bring himself to any Speciality. Science to him was one - in all departments one - and literature was but the servant or handmaid of his science. For a long time he conducted a section, devoted to science generally, in the Gentleman's Magazine, and in a similar manner be contributed to Science Gossip. He was an excellent lecturer, brimful of anecdote and happy in his illustrations. We, of Quator Coronati, had a taste of him in this way more than once. He was critical without being severe, and brief without missing points of any moment. He continued on in his course of work until a few years ago when he fortunately came into a property on the death of a relative. He then retired to Neasden Grange, -a house many of us will never forget, because it was the centre of so much Masonic hospitality on his part. We looked upon it as a duty of the most pleasurable kind to visit him there once a year and partake of the good things from his table - good things bodily and mentally -with the turn-out on the lawn afterwards and games and jokes to any extent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.