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THE note under the above heading in NATURE of November 11 contains a minor biographical inaccuracy which I should like to correct. The statement that my father studied chemistry under Tyndall is erroneous, for he and Tyndall first made each other's acquaintance, leading to a lifelong friendship, when they were young schoolmasters in 1847 at Queen-wood College, Hampshire. At this time my father had already been a student and assistant under Playfair, who held the appointment of Organic Chemist to the Government Department of Woods and Forests, and whose laboratory in 1845 consisted mainly of the underground kitchen and scullery of a house in Duke Street, Westminster! It was in this laboratory that my father made the acquaintance of Hermann Kolbe, who was also an assistant of Play-fair's, and it was Kolbe who induced my father to accompany him (Kolbe) to Bunsen at Marburg, where he was to see what an active research laboratory was like. On this occasion my father was only able to spend three months at the University of Marburg, but during this time he completed the joint investigation with Kolbe in which they discovered the classical reaction by which the fatty acids can be synthesised by means of the cyanides.
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FRANKLAND, P. Sir Edward Frankland Memorials at Lancaster. Nature 132, 818 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132818a0
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