Abstract
MR. CHARLES FREDERICK CROSS, who died in his eightieth year on April 15 at Hove, where he had lived in retirement for some years, left us indebted to him for a life devoted to a most difficult and unpromising branch of chemical research, rewarded by an epoch-making discovery, which is represented in Great Britain to-day by an artificial silk industry with a market capitalisation of more than £70,000,000. He was educated at King's College, London, the University of Zurich and Owens College, Manchester. In 1879, his work on the cellulose group commenced with a study of jute, and later, in association with Mr. E. J. Bevan and Mr. C. Beadle, he started the well-known business of Cross and Bevan, consultants to the paper trade.
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