ROBERT KENNEDY DUNCAN. 



TTTAS born in Brantford, Ontario, November 1, 1868, and 

 ' ' died in Mercy Hospital, Pittsburg, Pa., February 18, 

 1914. His Scotch-Irish descent was quite characteristically 

 shown in his logical thinking and farsightedness and in his 

 optimistic outlook and happy disposition. 



He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1892, with 

 first-class honors in physics and chemistry. He was Fellow in 

 Chemistry in Clark University in 1892-'93, and a graduate stu- 

 dent in Columbia University in 1897-'98. The University of 

 Pittsburg conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor 

 of Science, in 1912, during the exercises celebrating its 125th 

 anniversary. 



He was instructor in physics and chemistry in the Auburn 

 (N. Y.), Academic High School, 1893-'95, Dr. Juhus Sachs' 

 Collegiate Institute (N. Y.), 1895-'98, the Hill School, Potts- 

 town, Pa., 1898-1901, Professor of Chemistry in Washington 

 and Jefferson College, 1901-'06, Professor of Industrial 

 Chemistry in the University of Kansas, 1906-'10, Director of 

 Industrial Research and Professor of Industrial Chemistry at 

 the University of Kansas and at the University of Pittsburg, 

 1910-'13. 



Doctor Duncan became a member of the Kansas Academy 

 of Science when he came to Kansas in 1906. He was a mem- 

 ber also of the American Chemical Society, the Society of 

 Chemical Industry, the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, the Society of the Sigma Xi, the Royal Society 

 of Arts, and a Fellow of the Chemical Society of London. 



In 1899 he married Miss Charlotte M. Foster, of Brantford, 

 Ontario, who survives him, as do also his only daughter, 

 Elspeth, and his brothers. Dr. Norman Duncan, the well-known 

 story-writer, and Ernest H. Duncan, of Willoughby, Ohio. 



In the years 1900, 1903, 1904 and 1906 Doctor Duncan 

 studied abroad, gathering material to be used in his chosen 

 field of literary activity — the interpretation and popularizing 

 of chemical science — in which his clear and charming style 

 made him an acknowledged master. In addition to his nu- 



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