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fall in the heat of vaporisation. There is no indication of such 

 molecular association in the vapour of any of the alcohols. [Phil. 

 Mag. 23, 129 (1887).] 



An investigation on similar lines of a mixture of ethyl alcohol 

 and ether led to results of some interest, but a method of bringing 

 about the thorough admixture of two liquids in a tube of narrow 

 bore by means of an electromagnetic stirrer was afterwards 

 devised by Kuenen, and his results are of far greater value and 

 importance." 



In those days experimental scientific research received 

 practically no encouragement at the hands of governing 

 bodies. If a professor chose to engage in work of this 

 kind, it would be done almost surreptitiously in such 

 time as he could snatch from the lecturing and teaching 

 which formed the whole of the official duties connected 

 with his chair. The consequence of this state of opinion, 

 supported as it was by the utterances of public men 

 and the conservative attitude of the older British 

 universities, has been until quite recent years almost 

 total inactivity in regard to research and the higher 

 instruction which is dependent on research in the majority 

 of the universities and colleges in this country. Here 

 and there a man of genius has appeared endowed with 

 sufficient energy to enable him to push onward in spite 

 of such obstacles. Kamsay was one of these, and the 

 record of his work and example has contributed in no 

 small degree toward promoting the change in public 

 feeling in reference to research, which is now almost 

 feverishly manifested. 



At Bristol in the early days of the College there were 



