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INDEX 



Letts, Professor E. A., 67. 

 Lloyd Morgan, Professor, notes, 87. 

 Lubbock, Sir John (Lord Avebury ), 97. 

 Lunge, Dr. G., 113. 



Macara, Rev. Dr., 14. 

 MacEwen, Professor, Rev., 26. 

 M'Kendrick, Professor, 46. 

 MacNicol, Mrs., notes, 10. 

 Mac Vicar, Miss F., notes, 10. 

 Marshall, Professor Alfred, 69 ; letter, 



70. 



Martineau, Sir Thomas, 96. 

 Masson, David Orme, 71. 

 Mendeleeff, Professor, 89. 

 Miers, H. A. (Sir Henry), 135. 

 Mills, Dr. E. J., 49. 

 Morgan, Lloyd, Professor, notes, 87. 

 Moissan, Professor, 301. 

 Moore, Professor Richard B., 160. 

 Muir, M. M. P., notes, 11. 



Napier, Robert, 6. 



Neon, 145. 



Niton or radium emanation, 161. 



Olszewski, Professor C., 134. 

 Ostwald's ed. of Ramsay's Essays, 2. 



Peace, Dr. A. L., 11, 21. 



Percival, Rev. Dr. (Bishop of Here- 



ford), 67. 



Picton, H. W., 106. 

 Plimpton, Dr. Richard T., 106. 

 Purdie-Dickson family, 13. 



Radium, 158. 

 Radium Corporation, 169. 

 Radium Institute, 169. 

 Ramsay, Sir Andrew, 3, 4, 6. 

 Ramsay, Eliza, 3, 6. 

 Ramsay, Ella, 30. 

 Ramsay, John, 3, 6, 20. 

 Ramsay, William, grandfather of Sir 

 William, 3, 4, 5. 



William, father of Sir 

 William, 3, 6. 

 Ramsay, William (Sir William) 



Birth, 9. 



At Glasgow Academy, 18. 



At Glasgow University, 19. 



In Tatlock's laboratory, 21, 28. 



Assistant in Anderson's College, 22. 



Visit to Paris and Havre, 22. 



Professor at Bristol, 23, 64. 



At school, 19. 



Character at school, 24. 



Physical characteristics, 25. 



In Shetland, 30. 



In Heidelberg, 31. 



In Tubingen, 31. 



On learning German, 33. 



On billiards, 34. 



Examination at Tubingen, 36. 



Dissertation for Ph.D., 37. 



Journey to Switzerland with uncle, 

 Sir Andrew, 43. 



Abstractor for J. Chem. Soc., 44. 



First paper, 45. 



Interest in languages, 55, 59. 



At the British Association, 62, 64. 



At the French Association (1877), 

 62, 173, 188. 



Principal of University College, 

 Bristol, 70. 



Paper on Smell, 86. 



Paper on Brownian motion, 87, 118. 



Meeting with Mendeleeff, 89. 



At BritishAssociation in Montreal,90. 



Letter from Oxford, 95. 



Papers by Ramsay and Young, 99. 



Elected F.R.S., 104. 



On Molecular Weights of Metals, 

 112. 



On Nitrogen Oxides, 113, 114. 



On Universities, 119, 204, 206. 



Letter about nitrogen, 129. 



Isolation of argon, 130. 



Discovery of helium, 136. 



Lectures in Paris, 139. 



Journey to Iceland, 139. 



Visit to Cauterets, 140. 



Award of Davy Medal, 141. 



President Chemical Section of 

 British Association (1897), 145. 



Receives the Longstaff Medal, 148. 



Nominated for Presidency of Chemi- 

 cal Society, 149. 



Lectures in Berlin, 149. 



Journey to Canada, 150. 



Apparatus for isolating argon, 153. 



Determination of density of niton, 

 161. 



Radiothorium, 170. 



Views on transmutation, 159, 163. 



President Society of Chemical In- 

 dustry (1904), 172, 174. 



President Chemical Society (1908, 

 1909), 172, 181, 183. 



President International Congress of 

 Applied Chemistry (1909), 172, 

 184. 



President British Association (1911), 

 172, 186. 



At St. Louis Exhibition (1904), 172, 

 174, 176. 



Lecture hi Vienna (1908), 173. 



On the Sewage Commission, 173. 



