Biographical Notes 5 1 



which appeared in 1826 and the second (enlarged) in 1848. He 

 was elected Professor of Chemistry at Oxford in 1822, to which, 

 twelve years later, was added the Chair of Botany, and in the interval 

 he took the degree of M.D. and practised as a physician, so his work 

 covered a wide field and yet was good, for he wrote valuable papers 

 on the chemical side of geology and on vegetable physiology. After 

 his death on Dec. isth, 1867, Professor J. Phillips remarked, " His 

 earnest spirit gained him great influence in the Oxford of his time. 

 No project of change ever found him indifferent, prejudiced, or 

 unprepared." He was elected into the Royal Society in 1822. 



PROFESSOR SIR EDWARD FRANKLAND was born at Churchtown, 

 near Lancaster, on Jan. i8th, 1825. From its noted Grammar 

 School he went to study at the Museum of Practical Geology in 

 London, under Professor Lyon Playfair. After teaching chemistry 

 at Queenswood College, Hants., he worked in 1847 under Bunsen 

 at Marburg, and, after graduating as Ph.D., proceeded to Giessen 

 to be under Liebig. In 1850 he returned to England as Professor 

 of Chemistry at Putney College, going on next year to Owens College, 

 Manchester, where he continued his important researches in theore- 

 tical and applied chemistry, so that, after being elected F.R.S. in 

 1853, he obtained a Royal Medal in 1857. In the summer of 1859, 

 when the Thames water at London became " horribly offensive/' 1 

 he was called upon by the Board of Works to join Professor Hofmann, 

 whom he afterwards succeeded at the Royal College, in reporting 

 on the deodorization of the sewage. In August 1859 he spent 

 a night with Professor Tyndall on the summit of Mont Blanc, where 

 he made interesting experiments. In 1865 he became analyst 

 of the Metropolitan drinking water, after serving on the second 

 Commission about the Pollution of Rivers, and contributed largely 

 to scientific literature. He gave up his Professorship in 1885, going 

 to reside at his house at Reigate. He received many honours, and 

 was ultimately created K.C.B. in 1897. On Aug. 9th, 1899, he 

 died after a short illness at Golaa in Gudbrandsdalen, to which 

 country he had gone as usual for salmon fishing. 2 



DR. JOHN LINDLEY, the son of a nurseryman, was born near 

 Norwich on Feb. 5th, 1799, and early showed a love for botany 

 and antiquities. From Norwich Grammar School he went to 

 Belgium as agent for a seed merchant, and began to write on 



1 The writer had full experience of this, for he was then a Master at 

 Westminster School and lodged at the lower end of Great College Street. 

 One night the stench was so bad that he was driven to mask it by screwing 

 up a lot of tobacco in a newspaper and thus fumigating his sitting room. 

 The water was a dark brown tint, seemingly full of a minutely granular 

 curd. 



1 His body was brought back to Reigate, where the writer, who had often 

 experienced his kindness, read the funeral service. 



