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lively interest in this Institution : during his lifetime he used all his 

 interest to obtain bursaries and otherwise promote the study of his 

 favourite science, and by his will he left a legacy to found a Scholar- 

 ship in connexion with the Chemical Chairs in that College. 



He attended the Chemical lectures at Glasgow University in 1837, 

 1838, and 1839, and shortly afterwards left Glasgow for Giessen, 

 where he continued his chemical researches under Liebig, and became 

 acquainted with many of his fellow pupils, whose names have since 

 become illustrious as workers in this portion of the field of science. 

 It is apparently shortly before this time that his first paper, entitled 

 Darstellung und Analyse des Hippursaures iEthers," was published 

 in the " Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie," vol. xxxi, p. 148 

 (1839). He was with Liebig, at Giessen, about two years, and then 

 returned to Glasgow, where he remained until the failure of the 

 Glasgow Commercial Exchange deprived him of the fortune be- 

 queathed him by his father, which had hitherto rendered him inde- 

 pendent. 



Stenhouse received his degree of LL.D, in May, 1850, and it was 

 about this time that he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Professor- 

 ship at Owens College. He left Glasgow for London in January, 1851, 

 and in the following month was appointed Lecturer on Chemistry to 

 the Medical School at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, but was obliged to 

 resign the appointment in 1857 owing to a severe attack of paralysis. 

 He then went to Italy, and resided there with his mother until her 

 death, which took place at Nice in February, 1860. He returned to 

 England in June of the same year, and again commenced scientific 

 research with that indomitable energy which was so characteristic of 

 him, and which enabled him to overcome the obstacles occasioned 

 by his bodily infirmities. 



In 1865 he succeeded Dr. Hofmann as one of the non-resident 

 Assayers to the Royal Mint, but was deprived of the appointment when 

 the office was abolished in 1870. In November, 1871, a Royal Medal 

 of the Royal Society was awarded to him for his long- continued 

 chemical researches, which have proved of great value in the arts and 

 manufactures. 



During the last four years of his life he suffered greatly from rheu- 

 matism in the eyelids, which compelled him to live almost constantlv 

 in a darkened room, and at times caused him the greatest pain. It 

 was not, however, until within a few weeks of his death that he became 

 sensibly feebler ; he ultimately sank into a sleep, and died a painless 

 death from old age and decay of nature in the early morning of the 

 31st December, 1880, in the seventy-second year of his age. He was 

 buried on the 6th of January in the High Church New Cemetery in 

 Glasgow, on the north side of the Cathedral. 



Dr. Stenhouse was one of the few surviving founders of the Chemical 



