Annual Report of the Council. xxxv 



In this country the honours paid to him included the award of 



the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1891, and the 



invitation to deliver the " Faraday Lecture " to the Chemical 



Society of London. This invitation he accepted, and the 



lecture which he gave, under the modest title " Some Points on 



the Theoretic Teaching of Chemistry,'"^ is a lasting proof of 



what a great and winning teacher of chemical philosophy Italy 



produced in him. 



A. N. M. 



The Rev. Robert Harley, Hon. M.A. (Oxon.), F.R.S., 

 &c., &c., who died at Westbourne Road, Forest Hill, London, 

 on July 27th, 1910, had been a corresponding member of the 

 Society since April 30th, 1850. 



Mr. Harley was born in Liverpool, January 23rd, 1828, and 

 was the son of a Wesleyan minister. His interest in and capacity 

 for mathematics developed so suddenly that, though he had 

 passed his fourteenth year before mastering the multiplication 

 table, he was at sixteen mathematical master in a school at 

 Seacombe. After being a teacher for several years, Mr. Harley 

 became a divinity student at Airedale College, Bradford (now 

 the United College, Bradford), and in 1854, minister of the 

 Congregational Church at Brighouse, a position he retained for 

 fourteen years, during the last four of which he was also tutor in 

 mathematics and logic at Airedale College. In 1868 he accepted 

 a call to Bond Street Chapel, Leicester. During the four years 

 he held this pastorate, he took an active part in the public work 

 of the town, serving on the School Board, and being honorary 

 curator of the town museum. From 1872 to 1881 he was vice- 

 principal and chaplain of Mill Hill School. He was principal of 

 Huddersfield College from 1882 to 1885, and in 1886 he 

 removed to Oxford, where he was minister of George Street 

 Congregational Church. He received the honorary degree of 

 M.A. in 1886, and took the leading part in the foundation of the 



* Trans. Client. Soc, vol. 25, p. 941, 1872. 



