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was the recipient of another paper of his " On Brownian 

 or Pedetic Motion," a subject on which ten years later 

 he communicated his more mature views to the Chemical 

 Society (Clem. Soc. Proc. 1892, p. 17). 



Many years later, on the twenty-first anniversary of the 

 foundation of the Club, Ramsay was present as a guest 

 and spoke pleasantly and brightly of episodes in its 

 early days. With that kindly twinkle of the eye which 

 with him so often heralded some whimsical touch or 

 paradox, he attributed such success as he had achieved 

 to the great advantage of a bad memory for anything 

 merely read or heard of, and the necessity, in his case, 

 of actual contact with experimental evidence as the 

 window through which the truths of science could alone 

 be perceived. We have the testimony of one who was 

 present on this and other occasions how cordially those 

 who had known him as Principal of University College 

 welcomed him back to Bristol, and a few years later 

 how pleasant it was to join in the ovation given him 

 when he received the Honorary Doctorate of the Uni- 

 versity, which in large measure owes its existence to 

 what he had done for education in Bristol a quarter of 

 a century before the Charter was granted. 



In the early days of the College, writes Professor 

 Lloyd Morgan, 



" degrees were only obtainable by sending our students to 

 London University or some other external examining body. 

 But what characterised much of the work of University College 

 was academic teaching on what I regard, I hope without undue 



