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numerous, and include "Life of Sir Philip Sidney," 1862 ; 

 " Sermons preached at Wolverhampton," 1862; "Sermons 

 preached before the University of Cambridge," 1866 ; " The 

 Maintenance of the Church of England as an Established 

 Church," Peele Prize Essay, 1874; "Sketches of Church 

 History in Scotland," 1877 ; " Christian Politics," 1877 ; and 

 "The North African Church," 1880. He was elected a 

 member of the Society on February 23rd, 1892. 



J. C. M. 



August Wilhelm von Hofmann died May 5th, 

 1892. For several years he was a resident in this country, 

 having been appointed in 1848 superintendent of the Royal 

 College of Chemistry, London. In 1864 he accepted the 

 Chair of Chemistry at Bonn, and shortly afterwards removed 

 to Berlin. In the Royal Society's catalogue of scientific 

 papers, page after page bears testimony to the extent and 

 interest of his work, both in this country and abroad. His 

 researches were mainly in organic chemistry, wherein he 

 showed himself a worthy successor of Woehler, Liebig, and 

 other early pioneers, who in this branch of science had 

 already made some tracks for the guidance of their suc- 

 cessors. His residence in this country was fortunate also 

 in this respect, that his laboratory was the training ground 

 for pupils who caught something of the master's enthusiasm 

 and carried on the good work which he inaugurated ; also 

 beyond the sphere of personal influence his writings were 

 of a character to arouse, even in a languid mind, a sense of the 

 growing importance of organic chemistry. In his laboratory 

 much attention was paid to the constitution of the aromatic 

 bodies, and the numerous bases and substitution products 

 derived from them. Many of these compounds, at that time 

 objects of scientific curiosity, are now produced on a large 

 scale, and their names are familiar words in commerce. 

 The eminence of Hofmann marked him out as the fitting 



