268 SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY 



many others of the connection. Mrs. Ramsay, Anders 

 and the Baron and Baroness Ramsay they never saw 

 again, but many of the younger members of that 

 happy party came to England and found a welcome 

 at Chester Terrace during the next half dozen years. 



They returned to Stockholm and thence went by 

 railway across Sweden, finishing their holiday with a 

 few days spent with Ramsay's friend, Professor Otto 

 Pettersen, at his country home near Barstrand. He 

 has a large experimental farm, and on an island opposite 

 the house is the Government laboratory of Marine 

 Biology, of which he is the head. It was a very happy 

 time, the family were nearly all at home, among them 

 the son Hans, who afterwards came to London to 

 University College, and whose work on the micro-balance 

 is now well known. 



Many friends have said that Ramsay was a perfect 

 host, but he was an equally good guest. Whatever 

 the nationality or status of his hosts he at once identified 

 himself with their interests, and young people always 

 accepted him as one of themselves. It was so at 

 Halma. Neither he nor the young Pettersens ever 

 forgot those few days together. An excursion was 

 made inland to see the curious rock carvings attributed 

 to the bronze age, and farming problems were studied, 

 but the great interest was the laboratory on the island. 

 Its fascinations might have had serious results. Pro- 

 fessor Pettersen was going to Gothenberg that week 

 and it was arranged that the Ramsays and some of the 



