THALLIUM. CROOKES. 



The Royal Society must Act. 



There can not be the slightest question about this matter; 

 the demonstration above given is absolutely complete. 



We may add, that any one having the time to spare, for 

 a little exact-science amusement can take a grab-bag, fill in 

 digits from o to 9 in about equal number, say 200 of each, 

 and grab one at a time, and record it after the digits given 

 in my expurgation. Shake well after each grab, and keep up 

 till the three fraudulent decimals expurgated by us, have 

 been replaced in number, all drawn from the grab-bag. 



These, u Crookes' Decimals Restored," will be just as val- 

 uable and just as worthless, just as crooked and just as true 

 experimental data, as the original decimals foisted upon the 

 Royal Society as experimental facts obtained by means of 

 the fine balance of Mr. William Crookes, " specially made 

 for that research." 



Of course, in grabbing these new crooked decimals, there 

 will be no objection to look at that same or any other fine 

 balance once in a while it will give a sort of highly scien- 

 tific air to this performance of crooked a Exact Science." 



I hasten to disclaim any personal credit for this method 

 of producing all the grandeur of ten-place data of observa- 

 tion, which has filled our own scientific oracle Clarke with 

 admiration, and made our own Morley imitate the achieve- 

 ment in a work published in grandest quarto style by our 

 own Smithsonian Institution at Washington, in 1895. 



Indeed, I believe the keen and truthful observer, Mr. 

 Gulliver, has reported, as an eye-witness, something almost 

 as fine as this grab-bag exact-science work in his noted 

 travels abroad. See his Voyage to Laputa, visit to first room 

 of the Academy, Division of Speculative Science. 



An honorable man would hasten to apologize to me for 

 his two editorial abominations; a truly scientific man would 

 acknowledge his error and recall from the Royal Society 

 the invented imaginary data of weighings; but I do not 

 think that Sir William Crookes is built that way nor that he 

 will act that way. 



However, the Royal Society, having printed this scientific 



