THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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The Physalia, the Yacht of the Florida Station. 



ceed nearly as rapidly without them. 

 Money so expended is certainly not 

 wasted, but it is doubtful whether it is 

 used to the best advantage. We must 

 acknowledge that in America we do 

 not so much lack money and equipment 

 as men who will devote themselves un- 

 reservedly to scholarship and research. 

 How money can be used to produce and 

 assist such men is a problem yet to be ! 

 solved. 



CLEMENS ALEXANDER WINKLER. 



While Germany has called a third 

 chemist from outside the boundaries of 

 the empire supposed to contain the 

 greatest chemists of the world, the 

 death of this truly great and truly 

 German chemist must be doubly felt, 

 and the earnest words of warning re- 

 peatedly uttered by him should make 

 a new and lasting impression; for 

 surely something must be amiss in the 

 boasted perfection of German chem- 

 istry when Germany finds it necessary 

 to call on Russia, Holland and Sweden 

 to find chemists for the chairs in her 

 greatest universities. A remarkable 

 critical article — the last one written by 

 Clemens Winkler — was printed in 

 the January number of The Populab 

 Science Monthly; it forcibly presents 



the judgment of the discoverer of ger- 

 manium on one of the dominant 

 phases of chemical investigation of the 

 present day, in which again German 

 chemists are seen to occupy an extreme 

 position, though they in this field also 

 are merely followers, not originators. 

 Since American chemists are wont to 

 follow their, largely German, teachers, 

 this critical paper deserves special at- 

 tention in this country. 



Clemens Winkler seemed predestined 

 for chemistry. His ancestors for many 

 generations were identified with the 

 mining and smelting industries of old 

 Freiberg; his father, Kurt Winkler, 

 was especially prominent in this 

 chemical industry and had been 

 greatly favored as one of the last for- 

 eign students admitted to the private 

 laboratory of Berzelius at Stockholm. 

 The perfection of the analytical work 

 of Clemens Winkler may be traced to 

 this origin, which he himself was proud 

 to remember, and which may also ac- 

 count for the fact, that some of his 

 most critical analytical work was first 

 published in the transactions of the 

 Swedish Academy of Sciences. 



Another favorable condition in- 

 fluencing Winkler's career was the fact 

 that two of the most prominent men 



