remained and succeeded in preserving the establishment from injury. Return to England In September 1859 he finally quit Chile for England. Soon after his arrival in London he was appointed lecturer on chemistry to St. Mary's Hospital (1860), and in 1862 became professor of chemistry in the London Institution. In the same year he was appointed chemist to the aniline colour works of Simpson, Maule, & Nicholson, a post which he held till 1866, when he became a partner in the old firm of his family - Messrs. J. C. & J. Field - in which he remained and of which he was senior partner at the time of his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863. Death In 1876 Field's health began to fail, and after a long illness he died on 3 April 1885. Writings Field wrote forty-three papers on scientific subjects for various periodicals, in addition to one written in conjunction with his brother-in-law, Sir F. A. Abel. Among them are: 'On the Solvent Power exercised by Hyposulphite of Soda on many Salts insoluble in Water' ('Journ. Chem. Soc.' 1863); 'On the Solubility of the Halogen Salts of Silver in certain Solutions' ('Chemical News,’ 1861); 'On the Existence of Silver in Sea-water' ('Proc. of the Royal Soc.' vol. viii. 1856–7); 'Artificial Formation of Atacamite' ('Revue Universelle,’ 1859); on 'Ludlamite, a new Mineral;’ and on 'The General Distribution of Bismuth in Copper Minerals' ('Journ. Chem. Soc.' 1862). References 1826 births 1885 deaths People from Lambeth English chemists 19th-century chemists Fellows of the Royal Society English science writers 19th-century English non-fiction writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh