First series of testimonials in favour of J. Alfred Wanklyn, ... as candidate for the Chair of Chemistry in the University of Aberdeen.

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[1862]
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Credit: First series of testimonials in favour of J. Alfred Wanklyn, ... as candidate for the Chair of Chemistry in the University of Aberdeen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr Wanklyn has had the exclusive charge of the Prac¬ tical Classes, and has also, twice a-week, taught a Tutorial Class of the Students who attend my Lectures. His Stu¬ dents come under me for examination, and I have always been fully satisfied with their progress. I have never heard Mr Wanklyn lecture, but I was so fully satisfied of his capabilities in this respect, that, during an unavoidable absence from my Class, I employed him to lecture for me, and he fulfilled this duty entirely to the satisfaction of my Students and of myself. I am not called upon to make any comparison between Mr Wanklyn and other Candidates for the Chair of Aber¬ deen, but I may state my general conviction, that his im¬ portant and successful labours entitle him to look for a Chair in any University. (Signed) LYON PLAYFAIR. XL—From Robert Bunsen, Hon. F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Heidelberg, Discoverer of the two new Metals, Caesium and Rubidium, &c, Herr J. A. Wanklyn, der sich unter den Bewerbern um die neuerdings in Aberdeen erledigte Professur der Chemie befindet, hat mich um ein gutachtliches Urtheil liber seine wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten ersuclit. Indem ich diesen Ersuchen mit Vergniigen entspreche, erfiille ich damit nur eine Pflicht, die ich eben so sehr Hrn. Wanklyn personlich als der Wissenschaft iiberhaupt skul- dig bin, um so mehr als ich Hrn. Wanklyn von fruker herunter die Zahl meiner ausgezeichnetsten und ta- lentvollsten Schuler rechne. Die Untersuchungen, durch welche derselbe seinen Na- men in der Wissenschaft bekannt gemacht hat, zeugen von einern besonderen Scliarfsinn und einer Gewandtheit in der Losung schwieriger experimenteller Probleme, wie
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