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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE
P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S.
[Illustration: Henry E. Roscoe
_Photo. E.H. Mills._
_Walter L. Colls. Sc._]
The Right Honourable
Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S.
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
BY
SIR EDWARD THORPE, C.B., F.R.S.
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS
1916
[_All rights reserved_]
ADVERTISEMENT
This sketch of the life and activities of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
is based, to a large extent, upon an obituary notice prepared at the
request of the Councils of the Royal and Chemical Societies, of which its
subject was a distinguished member, with a view to publication in their
respective _Proceedings_ and _Transactions_. In its present more extended
form it is offered to a wider public as the record of “a life in civic
action worn,” and as a slight tribute from a grateful pupil, an attached
co-worker, and a lifelong friend to the memory of a strenuous high-minded
man, of large aims and generous impulses, who spent his abilities and
energies unstintingly in promoting the welfare of science and the good of
his kind.
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
WILLIAM ROSCOE—HENRY ROSCOE 1