CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I
WILLIAM ROSCOE—HENRY ROSCOE[1]
CHAPTER II
HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE—BIRTH AND EDUCATION[16]
CHAPTER III
OWENS COLLEGE, MANCHESTER[28]
CHAPTER IV
THE YORKSHIRE COLLEGE[53]
CHAPTER V
THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY[77]
CHAPTER VI
ROSCOE AS A TEACHER[97]
CHAPTER VII
ROSCOE AS AN INVESTIGATOR[110]
CHAPTER VIII
ROSCOE AND CHEMICAL LITERATURE[138]
CHAPTER IX
ROSCOE AND THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES[146]
CHAPTER X
PUBLIC SERVICES—POLITICAL AND PROFESSIONAL WORK[152]
CHAPTER XI
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON—ETON COLLEGE—UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DUNDEE—SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION—ROYAL COMMISSION OF THE 1851 EXHIBITION—CARNEGIE TRUST: SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES—SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT: SCIENCE MUSEUMS—LISTER INSTITUTE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE[161]
CHAPTER XII
DIGNITIES AND HONOURS—THE DEUTSCHE REVUE—GERMANY AND ENGLAND—WORLD SUPREMACY OR WAR[175]
CHAPTER XIII
HOME LIFE—LADY ROSCOE—WOODCOTE LODGE—PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS—DEATH[190]
INDEX[204]

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE

CHAPTER I
WILLIAM ROSCOE—HENRY ROSCOE

The 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 stretched at least as far back as Adam and Eve, and he doubted whether any man could with certainty claim—pace Darwin—a more ancient lineage.[1]