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zero, and consequently also the departure d will be zero, and 

 therefore the true atomic weights are identical ivith our 

 standard atomic -weights. 



This is the grand final result of this, our analysis of all 

 atomic weight determinations made up to the present date. 



Our Earlier Publications. 



In conclusion, we may be permitted to point out the steps 

 which have led us up to this, the simplest and most direct 

 method, which I trust will be within the easy comprehension 

 and application of every student of chemistry in the world- 



We shall simply indicate our leading publications 

 concerned^ 



Our work, " The True Atomic Weights of the Chemical 

 Elements and the Unity of Matter, St. Louis, 1894," gives 

 essentially this method, but not by itself, since it was my aim 

 also to show horv eminent analysts had been mislead; hence 

 I entered upon the consideration of c( the trajectory of 

 errors" and the mathematical principles of " the limit 

 method." 



Many chemists, unable or unwilling to understand these 

 collateral matters, have shown by their manner that I was 

 altogether too tender in this fight for truth against error 

 and fraud. 



Hence I have, in this present work, exclusively devoted 

 myself to show in a manner so plain that the wayfaring man 

 even though somewhat foolish need not err. 



Indeed I trust every chemist will see that the results 

 embodied in the Stasian methods and atomic weights are 

 false, and that as a matter of plain fact, our standard 

 atomic -weights are the true atomic -weights 'within the degree 

 of precision actually attained. 



The entire method, in its essential feature, has been 

 printed in my " General Method for the calculation of 

 Atomic Weights from the Results of Chemical Analysis " 

 in the Comptes Rendus, T. 116, pp. 695-698; 1893, which 

 publication was followed by several applications of the 

 method, in other issues of the Comptes Rendus. 



