XII CONTENTS. 



PART SECOND. 



THE ABSOLUTE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF TEN 

 LEADING ELEMENTS. 



I. OUR METHOD OF DETERMINATION: 



Errors Indicated, 58. Absolutely Fixed Points 

 Needed, 58. Standard Atomic Weights, 59. Table of 

 Same, 59. Method of Procedure, 60. Example: Mer- 

 cury, 61. Extremes and Range, 62. Determination by 

 Sight, 63. Order of Procedure, 63. Atomic Weight 

 Calculation made Easy, 64. (Addendum : Reduction to 

 Air, 278). Standard and True Atomic Weights, 65. 

 Our Earlier Publications, 66. Baculus vs. Bacillus, 67. 

 THE WEIGHT OF A HALF-EAGLE : 



The Importance, 67. The Mean Weight of the Half- 

 Eagle, 68. Frequency of Circulation, 70. Amount of 

 Abrasion, 70. Criminal Extrapolation, 71. The Ratio 

 and the Excess, 73. 



II. THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LEAD, BERZELIUS: 



Introduction, 74. A, Lead Carbonate Ignited, 74. 

 B, Lead Oxide, Wet Way, 76. C, Lead Oxide, Dry 

 Way, Earliest Work, 77. Clarke Falsifying the Record 

 of Berzelius, 78. D, Lead Oxide, Dry Way, Later 

 Work, 79. Berzelius' Reduction of Lead Oxide, Si. 

 How I Learned the Name Berzelius, 84. F, Other Pro- 

 cesses, 85. What Shall be Done with Faulty Methods 

 and False Results? 90-91. 



III. THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF IRON, SVANBERG: 



Historic Record, 91. Results, 93. Late Work by 

 Richards, 94. 



IV. THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF MERCURY, ERDMANN : 



Results and Comments, 95-96. 



V. THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF SULPHUR, MARCH AND. 



Results and Comments, 96-97. 



VI. THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF CHLORINE, TURNER: 



Results and Comments, 97. Svanberg's Distilla- 

 tions, 98. Good Old Chemists Abused by Clarke, 99. 

 Hardin's Electrolyses, 100. 



