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the endorsement of my principles, why should Moissan use 

 my method, the carbide method, the only one which is good 

 in the four employed by his student, and say nothing 

 about it? 



Does Monsieur Moissan believe that he can commit such an 

 act without the chemical world taking notice thereof? 



Monsieur Henri Moissan. 



This carbide method is fully set forth in my book of 

 1894, the page cited in the Comptes Rendus for June 18, 

 1900; the method is direct, connecting atomic weights to 

 my standard of matter, the diamond, by oxygen as the only 

 link, common to all. 



To make matters worse, Moissan let the very excellent 

 young chemist, Henry Gautier waste his time and skill on 

 the crude and dull methods of his own (see p. 47, last 3 

 paragraphs, supra) , while he had him use my method, exact 

 and sharp, only on two determinations and upon very small 

 amounts of the carbide. 



The precise chemical method of reaching the combus- 

 tion, removing by liquid chlorine the boron, is worthy of 

 Moissan, and cheerfully recognized by me ; but the method 

 of atomic weight determination used, he has taken from my 

 publication, without giving due credit therefore. 



Finally, Moissan has caused his special laboratory student, 

 Henry Gautier, to falsify his most excellent laboratory "work 

 by reducing the same by means of the false German atomic 

 weights. See p. 34, supra. 



I have, in my paper of June 18, 1900, which now follows, 

 and which I supposed sufficiently clear and comprehensible 

 to any chemist, and especially in the next paper, shown up 

 this falsification and therefore spoliation of excellent French 

 laboratory work by false German standards, selected by 

 Moissan. 



If the " new era" of French chemistry under Monsieur 

 Henri Moissan shall continue in that way, French chemists 

 will suffer much more than I by the dishonorable and over- 

 bearing manner in which Monsieur Moissan has acted and 

 forced his colleagues to cover his action with their name. 



