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LIVERPOOL.—Prof. R. Robinson, of the University of Sydney, has been appointed to the newly constituted chair of organic chemistry. The University has recently received the sum of io,oool. from Mr. Heath Harrison for the endowment of the chair. Prof. Robinson, who will fill the chair, was a student of the University of Manchester, where in 1909 he was appointed assistant lecturer. He is well known for his investigations in conjunction with Prof. W. H. Perkin on the constitution of brazilin and haematoxylin, the synthesis of narcotine, and the constitution of strychnine, brucine, harmine, harmaline, etc. He was appointed to the chair of organic chemistry at Sydney in 1912.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 95, 609–610 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095609a0
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