 Frankland left London in 1888 to become Professor of Chemistry at Dundee, where his main scientific interests were in stereochemistry and in the preparation of pure cultures of bacilli, which were allowed to grow in solutions of sugars.He then went to Birmingham in 1894 as Professor of what was then Mason College, where he succeeded Professor William A. Tilden.Frankland retired at the end of the First World War, aged 60.