xlii Aiiiuin/ Report of the Conudl. 



the same day as the late Professor W. C. WilHamson. In the 



following year lie pul)lished in our Memoirs "Contributions to 



the knowledge of the manufacture of gas," a paper which is of the 



highest interest even to-day. In 1S53, Frankland was elected 



into the Royal Society, which awarded him a Royal Medal in 1S57 



for his researches on the organo-metallic bodies carried out in 



Manchester. In 1894 Frankland received the Copley Medal 



of the Royal Society; he was made K.C.B. in 1S97. In 1899 



the Wilde Medal was bestowed on him by this Society, of 



which he was elected an honorary memlier in 1869. 



H. B. D. 



Charles Friedel, whose death occurred at Montauban 

 on April 20th, 1899, was born on March 12, 1832, at Strassburg, 

 in which town his father was a banker. His mother was a 

 daughter of the French mineralogist, Prof. G. L. Uuvernoy. 



He was educated at the Protestant High School and after- 

 wards attended lectures at the Strassburg University. Being the 

 only son, it was his father's wish that he should enter the 

 business, with a view of eventually succeeding to the manage- 

 ment, and he therefore discontinued his studies. It soon became 

 apparent that he had no aptitude for the banking-house, and, his 

 propensity for science being so pronounced, his father permitted 

 him to continue his studies. 



In 1852 he went to his grandfather Duvernoy, at Paris, 

 where he applied himself to the study of mineralogy, and 

 made the ac(|uaintance of Senarmont, through whose influence 

 he was, in 1856, appointed curator of the mineralogical 

 collections at the Ecole des Mines. He also worked in the 

 laboratory of his fellow-countryman, Wurtz, then Professor at 

 the Ecole de Medecine, between whom and himself there grew 

 up a friendship which was only ended by death. It was in the 

 laboratory of Wurtz that Friedel commenced and carried out his 

 well-known researches on ketone. In 1876 he was appointed 

 Professor of Mineralogy at the Sorbonne, where, in 1884, he was 

 called to succeed his late master and friend, Wurtz, in the Chair 

 of Organic Chemistry. 



