Frankland.

Frankland. SIR EDWARD, D.C.L., LL.D., K.C.B. (1897), chemist, was born near Lancaster in 1825, and was appointed professor of Chemistry in Owens College in 1851, Bartholomew's Hospital in 1857, the Royal Institution in 1863, the Royal College of Chemistry in 1865, and the Normal School of Science, South Kensington, in 1881 (resigned 1885). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853, a corresponding member of the French Academy in 1866. He collected many of his papers in Experimental Researches in Pure, Applied, and Physical Chemistry (1878), and published, in addition to manuals and lectures, works on lighting, sanitation, &c., besides sharing Lockyer's researches in the atmosphere of the sun. He died in August 1899.