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Frankland provides an early link between London and Manchester chemistry and between British and Continental chemistry. He was the first professor of chemistry at Owens College, in 1851. He had studied with Lyon Playfair at the Royal School of Mines in London, where he became fast friends with the young German student Hermann Kolbe. Frankland went with Kolbe to... 

Frankland left Owens College in 1857 to teach at St. Bartholomew s Hospital in London, and in 1865, he succeeded Hofmann at the Royal School of Mines, when Hofmann left London to return to Germany. Frankland s successor at Owens was Henry Roscoe, who had just returned from studying with Bunsen at Heidelberg and who was the son of a distinguished Lancashire family (and the uncle of Beatrix Potter). 

After Frankland s move to the Royal College of Chemistry, which had become part of the Royal School of Mines, the school moved to South Kensington (1872), where it became known in 1885 as the Normal School of Science, then, in 1890, the Royal College of Science. The City and Guilds Central Institution, later the Central Technical College, opened across the street from the Royal School of Mines in 1884. Frankland s former pupil, Henry Armstrong, became the Technical College s professor of chemistry. 

Armstrong had enrolled in the Royal School of Mines in 1865, which was the first year Frankland taught there. 

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Dr. Margaret E. Farago Environmental Geochemistry Research Royal School of Mines Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Prince Consort Road... 

The author gratefully acknowledges the provision of unpublished data by Dr. Marjorie D. Muir, Department of Geology, Royal School of Mines, London, and by Dr. Henry L. Ehrlich, Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. 

George E. Davis (shown in Figure 1) was bom at Eton in 1850 and studied chemistry first at Slough Mechanics Institute and later at the Royal School of Mines (now part of Imperial College). His formal studies ended in 1870 when he joined Messrs Bealey s Bleach Works at Manchester as Works Chemist. He moved about fairly often in the next 10 years gaining experience in the chemical industry, mostly in Northwest England. Then in 1880 he became a consultant with an office in Manchester. 

Frederick Guthrie (London 15 October 1833-21 October 1886) studied under Kolbe in Marburg (D.Phil. 1856), was demonstrator at Owens College Manchester (1857) and Edinburgh (1859), professor of chemistry in Mauritius (1861), and of physics in the Royal School of Mines (1869) and School of Science (1881) in London. He published on cryohydrates, discovered mustard gas by absorbing ethylene in sulphur chloride, and did work in physics (thermal conductivity of liquids) of little importance. 

At the Royal School of Mines in London some experiments were made in the 1910s in order to rediscover the techniques of the early Bronze Age [7.4]. A very simple furnace, a hole in the ground, was charged with ... 

Tilden s book of chemical history resulted from a lecture course given for working men at the Royal School of Mines to mark Queen Victoria s Diamond Jubilee. Chapter 4 of the book summarized the work of Dobereiner, Odling, Newlands, Mendeleev, and Lothar Meyer. 

Edward Frankland Francis R. Japp, Inorganic Chemistry. (London Churchill, 1884) 70-80. Both taught at London Royal School of Mines. 

Robert William Atkinson was bom in Newcastle in England. After studies at the University College, London, under Alexander Williamson and the Royal School of Mines under Edward Frankland between 1867 and 1872, he became an assistant of Alexander Williamson, professor of chemistry at University College, London. Atkinson came to Japan on September 9th, 1874, and stayed until 1881. After his return, he lived in Cardiff, Wales. See Kikuchi s PhD thesis (note 18), The English Model of Chemical Education in Meiji Japan. ... 

Playfair, L. (Baron) (1852), Industrial Instruction on the Continent (London Royal School of Mines). 

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