l88 STASIAN FOLLY AND FRAUD. 



It is evident, from the diagram, that these two conditions 

 are thoroughly distinct; for the " dried " nitrate the atomic 

 weight is invariably almost two hundredths higher than for 

 the fused nitrate. 



This is true for Marignac and Penny as well as for Stas. 



This diagram alone must suffice to condemn the position 

 of Stas on this question, as to which silver nitrate is the true 

 one, the dried or the fused ? 



Stas and his school have left the question practically 

 open. When confronting such contrast, they hide it under 

 the pretention that it is of minor importance, insignificant; 

 but in the next breath and on the next page, they claim an 

 accuracy to the very last decimal! 



This fooling the chemical authorities and through them 

 the entire chemical world, has been carried on long enough. 

 It is worthy of the mountebank, but not becoming the 

 scientist, least of all when he proclaims the great precision 

 of exact science, and challenges the chemists of the world, 

 as Stas has done twice. 



Here, in this our diagram, printed from a photographic 

 reduction of our large scale drawing, all the actual facts 

 observed are represented in space to an exact scale. 



First of all, every one must admit, that the vaunted con- 

 cordance of the chemical determinations of Stas does not exist, 

 is not a fact, but merely a boastful pretense. 



To say that Penny and Marignac differed, and that their 

 work can not be considered in connection with that of Stas, 

 is making an assertion that is false in fact, and when repeated 

 after this exposition will become a wilful falsehood. 



The fact is palpably evident on our diagram, Plate I, that 

 Stas i( dried" differsy>'0;# Stas " fused " exactly as badly as 

 Penny u dried '" from Marignac " fused. ," 



It is also palpably evident, that Stas, " last series " (Nos. 

 9, 10), differ still more from his first or older series, (Nos. 

 1-8; 7 he withdrew), in a direction to get away from the 

 older chemists, Penny and Marignac. 



Any thoroughly unbiased mind must take this as an evi- 

 dence of intention on the part of Stas. 



He undertook the last series to prove simple relations of 



