Annual Report of the Council. xxvii. 



Editorial. 



The PRESIDENT. Mr. FRANCIS NICHOLSON. 



Mr. R. F. GWYTHER. Mr. R. L. TAYLOR. 



Dr. H. G. A. HICKLING. The ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



Wilde Efidowment. 



The PRESIDENT. Mr. W. H. TODD. 



Mr. FRANCIS JONES. Mr. R. L. TAYLOR. 



Dr. H. G. A. HICKLING. 



Special Library Committee. 



The PRESIDENT. Mr. FRANCIS NICHOLSON. 



Mr. C. L. BARNES. Mr. R. F. GWYTHER. 



Prof. W. W. HALDANE GEE. Mr. FRANCIS JONES. 



Mr. R. L. TAYLOR. Dr. H. G. A. HICKLING. 



The ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



Publications Cotnmittee. 



The PRESIDENT. Mr. C. L. BARNES. 



Dr. W. M. TATTERSALL. Dr. H. G. A. HICKLING. 



Sir Wiliiam Ra/nsay, K.C.By^ — By the death of Sir Wilham 

 Ramsay, which occurred on July 22nd, 191 6, the Society has 

 lost one of its most distinguished honorary members!. He was 

 borti in Glasgow on October 2nd, 1852, the son lof Willianl 

 Ramsay, C.E., and nephew of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 

 .F.R.S,, the well-known geologist. He was educated, up to This 

 eighteenth year, in Glasgow, first at the Academy, and then at 

 the , University, proceeding afterwards to Germany, where he 

 studi,ed undie|r B'unseln at Heidelberg, and under Professor Fittig 

 at Tubingen. Returning to Glasgow in 1872, he became Tutorial 

 Assistant in the University. In 1880 he was appointed Professor 

 of Qhemistry in University College, Bristol, where a yicar after- 

 wards he became Principal of the College. In 1887 hJe succeeded 

 the veteran chemislt, Williamson, in the Chair of Chemistry at 

 University College, London. ' 



Ramsay has been described by Tilden as a "born physical 

 chemist," nearly the whole of his published work belonging .'tp the 

 physical side of chemistry He first casme prominently before jthe 

 chemical world when he joined Lord Rayleigh in the endeavour to 

 discover the explanation of the remarkable fact, first noticed by 

 Rayleigh, that nitrogen obtained from air was sensibly heavier 

 than the same element isolated from various chemical compounds 



