IN the early morning of the last day of the old year we lost one of the few surviving founders of the Chemical Society, Dr. John Stenhouse. He was born at Glasgow, October 21, 1809, the son of William Stenhouse of the well-known firm of calico-printers, John Stenhouse and Co. of Barrhead. He was educated first at the Grammar School and then at the University of Glasgow, and long resided in his native city. At an early age he turned his attention to chemistry, and diligently studied that science under Graham and Thomson, and subsequently with Liebig at the University of Giessen. When he removed to London, after the failure of the Western Bank of Scotland had deprived him of the fortune bequeathed to him by his father, he became Lecturer on Chemistry in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, but was obliged to resign that appointment in 1857 owing to a severe attack of paralysis. Even this affliction however did. not discourage him, and after the lapse of a short time he renewed his scientific labours. In 1865 he succeeded Dr.Hofmann as non-resident Assayer to the Royal Mint, but was deprived of the appointment by Mr. R. Lowe, who abolished the office in 1870.