examiner in the Science and Art Department, 170; Lister Institute, 171; dignities and honours, 175; member of Privy Council, 176; his jubilee, 177; the _Deutsche Revue_, 179; Germany and England, 180; home life, 190; characteristics, 191; Woodcote Lodge, 197; death, 203 Roscoe, Maria, her marriage, 15; her “Life of Vittoria Colonna,” 16; her characteristics, 16; letter from, 39 Roscoe, William, his birth, 2; his schooling, 2; his love of literature, 2; becomes an attorney, 2; his poem “Mount Pleasant,” 3; attacks the Slave Trade, 3; welcomes the French Revolution, 3; his studies of Italian literature, 4; his “Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici,” 4; his translation of Tansillo’s “Nurse,” 5; his “Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth,” 5; purchases Allerton Hall, 6; reclamation of Chat Moss, 6; his connection with John M’Creery, 6; his protection of John Gibson, 6; his interest in botany, 7; founded Society for the Encouragement of the Arts of Painting and Design, in Liverpool, 7; Liverpool Academy, 7; Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 7; Liverpool Lyceum, 8; Liverpool Atheneum, 8; Liverpool Botanic Garden, 8; Liverpool Royal Institution, 8; is elected member for Liverpool, 9; his share in the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 9; votes for Catholic Emancipation, 10; riots in Liverpool, 10; his Parliamentary work, 10; failure of Liverpool bank, 10; his monograph on the monandrian plants, 11; his edition of Pope’s works, 11; his death, 12; appreciation of him by Washington Irving, 12 Royal Institution, lecture on amount of chemical light in tropics by Roscoe, 118 Rücker, Sir Arthur, 59, 81, 165 Sandbach, Mrs., 7 Schorlemmer, Carl, 35, 102, 121, 139 Schuster, Dr. Arthur, 131, 133 Science Lectures for the People, 38 Scott, Principal A. J., 33 Scottish Universities Commission, 167 Scudder, Frank, 159 Sherbrooke, Lord, 50 Spectrum analysis, 132 Spontaneous polymerization of volatile hydrocarbons, 101 Stewart, Dr. Balfour, 115 Technical Instruction Commission, 153 Terbium, spark spectrum of, 131 Thallium perchlorate, 123 “The Life and Experiences of Sir Henry E. Roscoe,” 144 Thompson, Joseph, his “History of Owens College,” 29, 46, 48 Tithonometer, 111 “Treatise on Chemistry,” 139 Tungsten pentabromide and pentachloride, 130 University College, Dundee, 167 University College, Liverpool, 167 University of London, 161 Uranium pentachloride, 130 Vanadium and its compounds, 123 Victoria University, 77; constitution as proposed by Manchester, 78; objections by Yorkshire, 80; joint memorial in favour of, 81; charter granted, 86; associates of Owens College the first graduates, 93 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 11 Ward, Sir A. W., 48, 50, 81