ABSTRACT
When Professor Callendar left McGill for the chair at University College, London, Rutherford had already achieved such a reputation in England by his work in Cambridge that he was immediately named as Calendars successor. It is rather my intention to give her some personal recollections of my stay in Montreal. Knowing my ignorance of this new subjectI was an organic chemistI wrote to Professor Rutherford requesting that I might work with him for a time, mentioning in support of my request the discovery of the new radioactive element. Even at this early stage this work had convinced Rutherford that the particles were either atoms of helium or doubly-charged atoms of hydrogen. In the neighbouring Chemistry Laboratory was an Assistant Professor by name of Evans. Rutherford left Montreal in 1907. He continued his brilliant discoveries and did work, even more exciting, in Manchester and Cambridge.
