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in the manner described above, yielded dents, on a plot of land adjoining the 



the following results: present laboratories acquired by the Col- 



supposed strength. Found to contain lege for the purpose of their extension. 



No. 1 -10% 1442$ The Schorlemmer Laboratory is at the 



No. 2 ..— \o% 13.76% end of the main corridor in the old cheini- 



No. 3 1% 1.76% 



No 4 x c/ l8i% cal building, measures 60 ft. by 30 ft., 



No s I c/ 1.18% and has an arched roof 30 ft. high. It is 



No. 6 1% 1.19$ designed to accommodate a professor, two 



No. 7 \ c /o i-39% demonstrators, and thirty-six students, 



No. S \% M3A and is fitted in the most complete manner, 



Upon diluting the sample No. 1 with with every requ j s i te for the important 



alcohol so that it would contain, theoret- work to be carr i ec i OI1 w ithin it, in some 



ically 1 per cent., two samples of the particulars being arranged after the plan 



product were assayed in the same man- of the Munich laboratories. The lower 



ner and were found to contain laboratory is designed for forty-five stu- 



1. 0.992 percent. dents. The fittings are similar to those 



2. 1. 013 percent. in the old laboratories designed by Sir 

 which figures prove the reliability of the Henry Roscoe. The reagent-room, 20 it. 

 method. by 20 ft-, communicates by a flight of 



New York, May 20, 1895. steps w j t h Burlington street. The total 



cost of the new building is ,£4,800. 



OPENING OF THE SCHORLEMHER Sir H. E. Roscoe, M. P., gave a brief 



LABORATORY. sketch of Schorlemmer'slife, and describ- 



On May 3, at the Owens College, Man- ed how he came to him as an assistant, 



Chester, Dr. Eudwig Mond, formally and remained his faithful and intimate 



opened' the Schorlemmer Laboratory, friend lor thirty-four years. When Ditt- 



which the Manchester Guardian remarks, mar resigned, Schorlemmer was placed in 



is the result of the general feeling that the position of sole assistant and demon - 



the best memorial of the late Prof. Schor- strator to a somewhat increased numbtr 



lemmer would be the erection of a labora- of students. In that new position his 



tory for organic chemistry, to be called powers as a laboratory teacher soon made 



alter his name. A subscription list was themselves manifest, and much of the 



accordingly opened, and the appeal, subsequent success of the laboratory was 



which was generously headed by Dr. due to his tact and knowledge, and to the 



Mond, was so well responded to, both in genuine enthusiasm which he displayed 



England and in Germany, that in a in imparting that knowledge to others, 



short time a sum of ,£2,500 was sub- He (Sir H. Roscoe), remembered as 



scribed. In view of the steady increase though it were only yesterday, the first 



in the number of students, the Council beginning of the original work which had 



had meanwhile become convinced of the made his name eminent amongst the 



necessity of extending the chemical de- chemists of that time. Mr. John Barrow, 



partment. They accordingly accepted of Gorton who was then occupied with the 



the fund raised by the Schorlemmer manufacture of benzine by the distillation 



Memorial Committee, and instructed Mr. of cannel coal— for the supply from the 



Alfred Waterhouse to prepare plans for gas works was then not equal to the de- 



a Schorlemmer Organic Laboratory, and mand— sent him (Sir H. Roscoe), some 



for a new laboratory for elementary stu- of the light oils which he obtained in his 



