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Bunsen was not only a great investigator but a 

 stimulating and inspiring teacher. His lectures were, 

 like everything he touched, marked by originality ol 

 treatment. He did not attempt to catch the attention 

 of his audience by brilliancy of style or by " firework " 

 experiments ; but his exposition was luminous, and his 

 experiments, always made with his own hands, were 

 exactly illustrative of the matter under discussion. 

 As soon as the lecture was over he went into his 

 laboratory. There he would find about a hundred men 

 waiting for his assistance and advice, and there he 

 spent the whole of his day, superintending the practical 

 work of his students 



To work with Bunsen was a real pleasure. He 

 did not confine his attention merely to those who 

 were engaged in original inquiry ; even the beginner 

 had the benefit of seeing how the Master worked, 

 and some of the most elementary operations in 

 analytical chemistry were performed by him at the 

 bench of the pupil. Thus, he taught us not 

 only by precept but by example, and from him we 

 learnt what accurate work meant. We saw how to 

 eliminate errors of experimentation, and to find out 

 where more errors lay. It was this complete devotion 

 to his science and to his students that drew men from 

 all quarters of the globe to study under him ; no one 

 who cared to benefit from his teaching was ever sent 

 empty away, and all who had worked in the Heidel- 

 berg laboratory looked back upon the time spent 

 there as one of the most fruitful periods of their lives. 



It was, however, specially to the advanced students 

 engaged in investigation that Bunsen's heart went out, 

 and to them he gave unstintedly his time and labour. 

 For to these men he knew the future of the science 

 belonged, and that it was they who would hand down, 



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