a significant loss of income for Perkin, he accepted a position in Oxford. Oxford In 1912 he succeeded Professor William Odling as Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, England, a position he held until 1929. When he started five colleges had their own laboratories. He first had to move into the Odling laboratory, a replica of the mediaeval Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury. During Perkin's time there, new and more extensive laboratories were built (the Dyson Perrins Laboratory), and for the first time in England a period of research became a necessary part of the academic course in chemistry for an honours degree. But the constant rivalry with the physical chemistry department, for example Frederick Soddy, lead to the situation that most of the graduates chose physical or inorganic chemistry as their subject, and Perkin got most of his postdoctoral employees from other universities. Published work Perkin's work was published in a series of papers in Transactions of the Chemical Society. The earlier papers dealt with the properties and modes of synthesis of cloud chain hydrocarbons and their derivatives. This work led naturally to the synthesis of many terpenes and members of the camphor group; and also to the investigation of various alkaloids and natural dyes. In addition to purely scientific work, Perkin kept in close touch with the chemical industry. Together with his brother-in-law Professor Frederick Kipping, Perkin wrote textbooks on practical chemistry, inorganic and organic chemistry; their Organic Chemistry appeared in 1899. Honours and awards Perkin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1890 and was awarded their Davy Medal in 1904 and their Royal Medal in 1925. He was president of the Chemical Society from 1913 to 1916 and was awarded their Longstaff Medal in 1900. In 1910, he was made an honorary graduate of the University of Edinburgh, receiving the degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.). Later life In 1887 he married Mina Holland, one of three sisters. They had no children. Both of his brothers-in-law were eminent scientists themselves (Arthur Lapworth and Frederick Kipping). He died in Oxford on 17 September 1929 and is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery there. References Sources 1860 births 1929 deaths Burials at Wolvercote Cemetery Organic chemists 19th-century English chemists 20th-century English chemists Royal Medal winners Waynflete Professors of Chemistry Fellows of the Royal Society Academics from Wembley Scientists from London Scientists from Wembley Members of the Royal