416  —- Papers relating to the Fusion of Carban; 
1 geet thly-—The Committee object to the following passage: 
At not to have been so readily supposed that in scruti- 
nizing the substances which he (Professor Silliman) had ob- 
tained, with a view to communicate the result to the public. 
any advantageous employment of the magnet, the vets the 
file, or the mineral acids, had been omitted.” ommittee 
cannot think itso entirely evident, that Mr. Silliman must 
have employed all these tests, (none of which he mentions m 
bis paper,) that the Society’s correspondent should, be called to 
task for having sumposed the contrary possible.’ 
It appears iertin: Professor Silliman’ s Memoir, — 5, page 363, Ameri- 
can Journal of Science,) that he did employ boi 
nitric acid; 2 reover, it i 
; and moreo dent that the products which he 
sed carbon, co ot I ve been iron, both on account 
of their habitudes with these acids, and account of th 
when subjec to the solar focus in oxygen Of course a 
e 
eous” application of the magnet could fies been m 
examining Re globules eee upon Lecce when ee to the 
deflagrator, it will be found that Profes liman did rt to the 
magnet. ad es Nalte@ socialite eqrereson ne ne aga 
tional to expect that the globules might be magnetic. The magnet was 
also employed by him in testing the globules procured from anthracite, 
rator. 
The responsibility of the rejection of my remarks, must fall princi- 
pally on Dr. Patterson, chairman ofthe Commitee —— wrote the 
aot, ik oppeit 
My strictures on the second poy of Prof. Vanuiem on fused car- 
bon, published in this number of the American Journal, page 102, have 
been denied a place in the path * the Academy, for the following 
reasons, advanced y committee to whom it was referred : 
Ist. That, “4s the paper of Mr. Vanuxem is : neither per- 
nor controversial, nor even argumentative in its charac- 
ter, tt does not appear to > have merited a reply of the ‘gute: 
of that submitted.” 
2d. That, “ If Mr. Vamuscass paper be an ners a is one 
nuade with the instruments of the Laboratory, and should be 
as by the same means.” 
3d. That, “ If the Academy is to be called in as a second, 
ta this tiherary. contest, it should see that the antagonists use the 
Same weapons.” 
Ath, That, in a journal, ‘ established” for the aii of 
facts, « at Gould he inconsistent” to introduce “ a.paper which. 
