ila Papers reiating to the Fusion of Carboi. 
catbon; and had it been supposed, or proved, to Contain a 
minute ‘portion of iron, it would not have surprised me. — 
ith respect to the colourless globules, resembling dia- 
mond, Professor Silliman has never treated them as carbon 
unquestionably ; and I have no evidence to offer from my 
experiments with the deflagrator which bas any tendency to 
prove that diamond globules can be produced. | am not 
of course disposed to saad that’ there is much room for skep- 
ticism on thie sis 
* 
Ii. Letter a Dr. Haka to the Editor, respecting the proceed- 
ings of the Academy of Natural Sciences. September 1825. 
_ That two memoirs on fused carbon have been inserted 
in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of 
Prada! while answers to them have only appeared in 
other Sousmelee may excite some surprise—especially 
rties immediately concerned in the discussion are 
Pe tats of the Academy. It may be proper that the sci- 
entific world should be informed, upon what grounds the 
persons who have assumed the control over a public chan- 
nel of information, can justify: themselves for allowing only 
one of the parties in a discussion to be hear 
ose readers who Can call to mind the ‘impressions re- 
abla by them or perusing my “remarks” upon Professor 
em’s memoir on fused carbon, (published in “a 
Jonrtal Vol. VIII. p. 288,) will smile on reading the 
of a committee, by which it was denied abladtiis, 
because | bain not conscientiously admit that it contained 
passages personally offensive to Mr. Vanuxem. 
Twilla Maer with the allege tions of the report, such ani- 
madversions as may occur tome. It commences with alleging: 
“That this paper seems to them to prove that the substance 
examined by Professor Vanuxem was not the same as that pro- 
cured and described by Professor Silliman, and that it ought 
on his account, to be introduced into the Academy’s Journal, 
in justice to the chemist, and for its own intrinsic interests. 
They ng not iphone hesitate to cope sts its publication, 
did tt not wnhappily contain expreseians and ite. 2 calert- 
