ABSOLUTE ATOMIC WEIGHT. 



fraud in its Transactions, will, I think, publish a note of our 

 expurgation to set itself right before the scientific public of 

 the world. 



The Foundation of Modern Science. 



Modern Science rests on the foundation of experiment 

 and observation; it is supposed to have superseded the 

 so-called ancient use of imagination and fancy. 



The record of observed facts is therefore something 

 essentially sacred to modern science; and the Royal Society 

 can not evade its duty because of the high social standing- of the 

 culprit, its oivn member, Sir William Crookes. 



If in these modern days, the persons controlling scientific 

 publications can denounce and persecute honest painstaking 

 investigators who show the error of certain important data 

 used every day in scientific work throughout the world, 

 while those editors and other influential persons themselves 

 have published absolutely fraudulent data of experiment 

 and observation, is not the lot of the independent scientific 

 investigator to-day worse than that of the reformator of the 

 church four centuries ago? 



The priesthood when forming a State Church may have 

 abused its high station of power and responsibility as the 

 keeper of the Sacred Truths of Religion; but neither 

 dungeon, torture, nor the stake could prevent the final issue 

 so highly lauded by the liberal scientific public of the 

 present. 



SCIENCE is xo MORE SACRED THAN RELIGION; ivhcn 

 Official Science gets so rotten that its record of fact and 

 observation is rank fraud, the FINAL ISSUE is JOINED. 



Great ado has been and continues to be made about 

 impositions of relics of Saints; but how utterly innocent 

 such errors appear when contrasted with fraudulent records 

 of observed facts of weighings! 



If authority of official position in State Science and in 

 Scientific Journalism is sufficient to prevent just criticism of 

 data of observation and experiment, or of conclusion and 

 principle, the true ground work of modern science has 

 disappeared from view, and the errors and horrors of State 



