was awarded the 1868 Bakerian Lecture for this work. He also carried out researches on niobium, tungsten, uranium, perchloric acid, and the solubility of ammonia. He was the uncle of Beatrix Potter. The mineral Roscoelite was named after him, due to its vanadium content and Roscoe's work on that element. Roscoe received an honorary doctorate (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901. In November 1909 he was sworn in the Privy Council. He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1912. Publications Roscoe's publications include, besides several elementary books on chemistry that had a wide circulation and were translated into many foreign languages, Lectures on Spectrum Analysis (1869); a Treatise on Chemistry (the first edition of which appeared in 1877–1892); A New View of Dalton's Atomic Theory, with Dr Arthur Harden (1896); and an Autobiography (1906). The Treatise on Chemistry, written in collaboration with Carl Schorlemmer (1834–1892), who was appointed his private assistant at Manchester in 1859, official assistant in the laboratory in 1861, and professor of organic chemistry in 1874, was long regarded as a standard work. Roscoe's Lessons in Elementary Chemistry (1866) passed through many editions in the UK and abroad. Selected works Commemoration The Roscoe Building at the University of Manchester was named after Professor Roscoe. It is a large general-purpose teaching facility used for various levels of teaching in Brunswick Street. References External links Comments on photograph of Kirchhoff, Bunsen, and Roscoe Henry Enfield Roscoe (Open University) Obituary (by Charles A. Keane, The Analyst'', 1916, 41, 63 – 700) Henry Roscoe Papers, John Rylands Library University of Manchester English chemists Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester Alumni of University College London People associated with the University of London Fellows of the Royal Society 1833 births 1915 deaths Royal Medal winners Knights Bachelor Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 Vice-Chancellors of the University of London Presidents of the British Science Association Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Recipients of the Dalton Medal