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but few advanced students capable of taking part in 

 research. Among these Miss K. I. Williams, whose 

 death took place in January 1917, deserves to be 

 mentioned. Ramsay suggested to her an investigation 

 into the composition of various foodstuffs, cooked and 

 uncooked, and this enquiry occupied her continued 

 attention till the close of her life thirty-five years later. 

 Her results have been collected into the form of a book, 

 which it is expected will be published very soon. 

 James Tudor Cundall, Colonel H. C. Reynolds, R.E., 

 and Franklin P. Evans also worked at research under 

 Ramsay's direction. 



The establishment of the University College brought 

 in the persons of the professors a very welcome accession 

 to the intellectual society of Clifton. Among Ramsay's 

 colleagues were several men who afterwards reached 

 great eminence in their several departments of science. 

 His own immediate colleague, the Lecturer in Chemistry 

 Dr. Sydney Young succeeded to the chair when he 

 went to London and afterwards became Professor in the 

 University of Dublin. The Professor of Physics was 

 Silvanus P. Thompson whose fame as a popular lecturer 

 rivalled that of Tyndall at the Royal Institution. A 

 few years later he became Principal and Professor at 

 the City and Guilds of London Technical College, 

 Finsbury. Then there was W. J. Sollas as Professor 

 of Geology and Zoology, now Professor of Geology 

 in the University of Oxford. Engineering was repre- 

 sented by H. S. Hele Shaw, who subsequently occupied 



