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Owens College had its origin in a bequest of John Owens, a merchant of Manchester, who left the bulk of his fortune to trustees to found a collegiate institution in Manchester,...
7. CHAPTER IVThe Yorkshire College of Science, as it was first styled, had its origin in the general movement towards a fuller recognition of the duty of the community in regard to national...
8. CHAPTER VAt the time of this movement in favour of the creation of a university in Manchester the writer of this memoir was, as already stated, a member of the teaching staff of the York...
16. CHAPTER XIIRoscoe’s services to science and to the cause of education were widely recognized. He was an honorary graduate of many universities at home and abroad, and an honorary or corres...
10. CHAPTER VIIThe character of Roscoe’s scientific work may also be said to have been entirely moulded by his Heidelberg training, and Bunsen’s influence may be traced through it to the last....
17. CHAPTER XIIIIn 1863 Roscoe married the lady whom he had first met in his aunt Crompton’s drawing-room in Hyde Park Square—Lucy, the youngest member of the family of Edmund Potter, Esq., M.P...
4. CHAPTER IThe subject of this memoir had no particular pride of ancestry. _Stemmata quid faciunt?_ Although with no convictions on the subject, he was willing to believe that his line str...
9. CHAPTER VISome years before Owens College attained to the position of a university, several attempts were made to induce Roscoe to sever his connection with it. In 1870 he was offered the...
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5. CHAPTER IIHenry Roscoe brought his young wife to 10 Powis Place, Great Ormond Street, London, and here on January 7, 1833, his only son, Henry Enfield Roscoe, first saw the light. A daugh...
14. CHAPTER XRoscoe’s position in the educational world, and in scientific circles, coupled with his well-known business capacity and sound judgment, frequently led to his being invited to p...
11. Part II of “Researches on Vanadium,” dealing with the chlorides VCl₄,VCl₃, and VCl₂, and metallic vanadium, which he obtained by heating the dichloride in hydrogen, was presented to the Royal Society on June 16, 1869,[18] and his last memoir, tre...
19. Part V. On the direct measurement of the chemical action of[8] “Note on the Relative Chemical Intensities of Direct Sunlight and Diffuse Daylight at Different Altitudes of the Sun.” By H. E. Roscoe and J. Baxendell. _Roy. Soc. Proc._ XV...
12. CHAPTER VIIIRoscoe’s services to chemistry are to be measured as much by his contributions to its educational literature as by his efforts to enlarge its boundaries by original inquiry. For...
13. CHAPTER IXRoscoe was elected into the Royal Society in 1863, and served on its Council from 1872 to 1877, and again during two subsequent periods, viz. 1881-1883 and 1888-1890. He was a V...
18. Part IV. Comparative and absolute measurement of the chemicalrays. Chemical action of diffuse daylight. Chemical action of direct sunlight. Photochemical action of the sun compared with that of a terrestrial source of light. Chemical acti...
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3. CHAPTER XIII2. CHAPTER XII