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Chemistry in the newly-started (Hicenwood College, Hants. 

 Here he met Tyndall and Ijegan a friendship which largely 

 affected the life and work of both. At Queenwood, though much 

 occupied in teaching, Frankland began his great work <:)\\ the 

 isolation of the alcohol-radicals by the action of zinc on the 

 organic iodides. In the aulunni of 1848, Frankland and Tyndall 

 went to Marburg to study with IJunsen, and here the analyses of 

 the new gases prepared by Frankland were performed. In the 

 following year ho went to Liebig's laboratory at Giessen, where 

 he isolated the radical "amyl,"' and prei)ared and examined amyl 

 hydride (iso-pentane). AVhile at Marburg he first prepared zinc 

 methyl and zinc ethyl and tried the action of w^ater upon them. 

 Frankland writes : " On pouring a few drops of water upon the 

 residue, a greenish-blue flame several feet long shot out of the 

 tube, causing great excitement among those present. Professor 

 Bunsen, who had suftered from arsenical poisoning during his 

 researches on cacodyl, suggested that the spontaneously inflam- 

 mable body, which diffused an abominable odour, was that 

 terrible compound . . . and that I might be irrecoverably 

 poisoned." Zinc amyl was first prepared at Giessen, and the 

 further work upon organo-metallic compounds was prosecuted at 

 Owens College and afterwards in the Royal Institution. 



After teaching chemistry for a short time at the College for 

 Civil Engineers at Putney, F'rankland stood for the chair of 

 chemistry in the newly-estal)lished instituticn founded by the 

 trustees of John Owens, at Manchester, iniS5i. The list of 

 selected candidates included Dr. John Stenhouse, F\R.S., a pupil 

 of Liebig's and one of the founders of the Chemical Society, and 

 F. Crace-Calvert, who had been assistant to Chevreul, and w^as 

 then professor of chemistry in the Manchester Royal Institution. 

 But the brilliant achievements of Fiankland secured his election 

 at the early age of 26. 



In the chemical laboratory of the old College building in 

 Quay Street, F'rankland carried out some of his most; famous 

 work. In 1S52 he presented to the Royal Society the im- 

 portant memoir " On a new series of organic bodies containmg 



