| Citation | Professor of Chemistry, University of Melbourne. Distinguished as a teacher and as an original worker in Chemical science. Author of numerous papers published in the Proceedings and Transactions of Learned Societies and in Scientific periodicals. Among these are: - 'On the Action of Nitrous Anhydride on Glyceroe' (Chem Soc Trans, 1883); 'On Sulphine Salts derived from Ethylene Sulphide' (Brit Assoc Report, 1885); 'On Sulphine Salts containing the Ethylene Radical' (parts 1 and 2 Chem Soc Trans, 1886); 'On the Relation between the Boiling Points, Molecular Volumes, and Chemical Characters of Liquids' (Phil Mag, ser 5, vol xxx); 'Ionic Velocities' (Phil Trans, vol cxcii, 1899, pp 331-350); 'Theory of Mutal Solubility' (Australian Assoc Reports, 1891); with Dr Dobbin, 'Actions of Halogens on the Salts of Trimethylsulphine' (Chem Soc Trans, 1885); 'Action of Halogens on the Salts of Organic Bases' Part 2, 'Tetramethylammonium Salts' (ibid, 1886); with Dr Hay, 'The Elementary Composition of Nitro-Glycerine' (Trans Roy Soc Edin, vol xxxii, 1883); with J B Kirkland, 'Action of Bromine and chlorine on the Salts of Tetrethylphosphonium' (Chem Soc Trans, 1889); 'Preparation of the Salts of Triethylsulphine, Triethylphosphonium and Analogous Bases' (ibid, 1889); with Mr G W Macdonald, 'A Product of the Action of Nitric Oxide on Sodium Ethylate' (Chem Soc Trans, 1894); with Mr B D Steele, 'The Blue Salt of Fehling's Solution, and other Cuprotartrates' (Chem Soc Trans, 1889). |