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The Right Honourable
SIR HENRY ENFIELD ROSCOE
P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S.

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Henry E. Roscoe

Photo. E.H. Mills.

Walter L. Colls. Sc.

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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.
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FOURTH AVENUE & 30th STREET, NEW YORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS
1916

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ADVERTISEMENT

This sketch of the life and activities of Sir HenryEnfield Roscoe is based, to a large extent, uponan obituary notice prepared at the request of theCouncils of the Royal and Chemical Societies, ofwhich its subject was a distinguished member, witha view to publication in their respective Proceedingsand Transactions. In its present more extendedform it is offered to a wider public as the recordof “a life in civic action worn,” and as a slighttribute from a grateful pupil, an attached co-worker,and a lifelong friend to the memory of a strenuoushigh-minded man, of large aims and generous impulses,who spent his abilities and energies unstintinglyin promoting the welfare of science andthe good of his kind.

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