CHAPTER III 



"HEIDELBERG DU FEINE" 



Heidelberg Bunsen Fellow-students Heidelberg Doctorate Photo- 

 chemical Researches German University Life. 



HAVING taken the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the 

 University of London in 1853, I was able to give my 

 whole attention to the study of the science to which I 

 had determined to devote my life. In the course of 

 my chemical work I had naturally become acquainted 

 with Bunsen's fame as a teacher as well as with many 

 of his researches, and I had a great desire to work 

 under him. I therefore persuaded my mother, who 

 was nothing loth, to accompany my sister and myself 

 to Heidelberg, to which university Bunsen had just 

 been called from Breslau. 



The mass of British tourists who pass through 

 Heidelberg each summer to enjoy the charming scenery 

 of that delightful spot know little and perhaps care less 

 about that which really marks this town as one of the 

 most illustrious and ancient seats of learning in the 

 world. They are satisfied to stroll round the ruins 

 of the Heidelberg Schloss, and to wonder at the 

 Gesprengte Turm outside, and at the Grosse Pass 

 inside the Castle. The very existence of the far-famed 

 Ruperto-Carola is to most of these travellers unknown, 

 and it is only if by chance they meet some corps 

 students in gala costume, or hear of some more than 



