Professor Edward Frankland Size:L: 100 x 80cm View from a cliff top

View from a cliff top with infantrymen making their way uphill with cannon

Plate 5 from Journal of a Route Across India

(Kegan Paul

over which is inscribed British Inquisition

poet and editor

Professor Edward Frankland Size:L: 100 x 80cm View from a cliff topProfessor Edward Frankland, 1880. He became professor of chemistry in 1850 at the Royal College of Engineers, and in 1865 became professor of chemistry at the Royal School of Mines. He has been accredited with devising the theory of valence. He also undertook research into water purification and town drainage. He was knighted in 1897. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science,