CHAPTER X 



CONCLUSION OF WORK IN MANCHESTER 



Resignation of Professorship Member of Parliament for South Man- 

 chester Addresses on Retirement My Views on the Teaching of 

 Chemistry Fellow of Eton College. 



IN consequence of my election as Member of Parlia- 

 ment for the Southern Division of Manchester in 

 the autumn of 1885, I resigned the professorship of 

 chemistry in the Owens College, which I had held since 

 October, 1857. On the occasion of my retirement I 

 received the following resolution passed by the Council 

 of the College : 



At a meeting of the Council held at the College 

 on Friday the i8th December, 1885, the resignation of 

 Sir Henry E. Roscoe, Professor of Chemistry, was considered, 

 and it was resolved, that the Council, while offering to 

 Sir Henry Roscoe its congratulations on his attainment 

 of the honour of election to a seat in Parliament, accepts with 

 very deep regret the consequent resignation by him of the 

 offices of Professor of Chemistry and Director of the 

 Chemical Laboratories in the Owens College, and invites 

 him to confer with a Committee of the Council as to the 

 time at which the resignation shall take effect, and as to 

 the arrangements which it may be desirable to adopt for 

 the future conduct and organisation of the department. 



That the Council desires to place on record its strong 

 sense of the eminent services, which through a period of 

 nearly thirty years Professor Roscoe has rendered to the 

 College, and its conviction that to his great attainments 

 as a man of science, his skill and success as a teacher and 



