“As I look back upon my life I can indeed say with the Holy Scriptures that it has been ‘labour and sorrow.’ But I have also to thank the Lord that He has given me His blessing in my calling and in my family, and has bestowed more good upon me than I have known how to ask of Him. The Lord has helped hitherto; He will help yet further.” In 1877, when the Magneto-Telephones of Graham Bell began to make their way into Europe, the friends of Philipp Reis were not slow to reclaim for their deceased comrade the honours due to him. In December 1877, as the columns of the _Neue Frankfurter Presse_ show, a lecture was given upon the history of the Telephone, at the Free German Institute, in Frankfort, by Dr. Volger, its President, the same who in 1863 had shown the Telephone to the Emperor of Austria. On that occasion the Telephone of Reis’s own construction, presented by him to the Institute after his exhibition of it in 1862, was shown. Early in 1878 a subscription was raised by members of the Physical Society of Frankfort for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of their former colleague. This monument, bearing a portrait medallion, executed by the sculptor, Carl Rumpf, was duly inaugurated on Sunday, December 8, 1878, when an appropriate address was pronounced by the late Dr. Fleck, of Frankfort. The ‘Jahresbericht,’ of the Physical Society for 1877-78 (p. 44), contains the following brief record:-- “The Society has erected to the memory of its former member, the inventor of the Telephone, Philipp Reis (deceased in 1874), teacher, of Friedrichsdorf (see ‘Jahresbericht,’ 1860-61, pp. 57-64; and 1861-62, p. 13), in the cemetery of that place, a monument which was inaugurated on the 8th of December, 1878. This monument, an obelisk of red sandstone, bears in addition to the dedication, a well-executed medallion portrait of Philipp Reis, modelled by the sculptor, A. C. Rumpf, and executed galvanoplastically by G. v. Kress.” The inscription on Reis’s monument in the Friedrichsdorf Cemetery is:-- [Illustration: HIER RUHT PHILIPP REIS GEB. 7. JANUAR 1834 GEST. 14. JANUAR 1874 SEINEM VERDIENSTVOLLEN MITGLIEDE DEM ERFINDER DES TELEPHONS DER PHYSIKALISCHE VEREIN ZU FRANKFURT-A-M. ERRICHTET 1878 ] PRINCIPAL DATES IN REIS’S LIFE. 1834 January 7 Philipp Reis born. 1850 March 1 Apprenticed to Beyerbach. 1855 Year of Military Service at Cassel. 1858 Settled in Friedrichsdorf. 1859 September 14 Married. 1860 Invented the Telephone.