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edge of his actual degree of precision did not easily get 

 tired but kept on calculating briskly till he got three 

 places beyond the ken of his balance. Of course he kept 

 eyeing his beloved balance; he looked at the fine machine. 



The recorded weighings contain 9 and 10 digits, and 

 require ten place logarithms for calculating the analytical 

 ratio. Did Mr. Crookes use such tables ? Has he ever seen 

 such tables ? 



If he should claim that he calculated his ratios by hand 

 and not by logarithmic table, why did he stop at paltry six 

 decimals, when 10 place numbers of observation would 

 require 10 place quotients ? 



In the analytical ratios the only result of value to us- 

 these three invented or imaginary decimals have entirely 

 disappeared again without leaving the slightest trace. 

 They evidently were absolutely spiritualistic decimals and 

 entirely imaginary numerals, though they were presented to 

 the oldest scientific society of the world as data of observa- 

 tion and experiment and were so recorded and published 

 and have been so taken by the Chemical World, lo! these 

 thirty years! 



The three last columns of decimals, presented by Mr. 

 Crookes, in 1873, to the Royal Society of London, as actu- 

 ally observed weights of the metal thallium and its nitrate, 

 were absolutely nothing but imagination, pure and 

 simple, from beginning to end, 



constituting an imposition on the Royal Society of 

 London, and 



a fraud upon the scientific public of the World. 



Accordingly, we find the whole imposition and fraud 

 very properly and very naturally recommended as a model by 

 our own scientific fraud at Washington, in his Constants of 

 Nature, both editions: 1882, p. 95, and 1897, p. 185. 



And Sir William Crookes, the perpetrator of this scan- 

 dalous fraud, rants, in 1896, against me about imagination, 

 and what not; let him first apologize to the Royal Society 

 for the gross imposition he perpetrated upon that august 

 body in 1873. 



