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the Workshop where these constants were manufactured, 

 and the great Manufacturer of Atomic Weights himself. 

 Sic transit gloria mundi. 



IV. HERESY IN THE CHURCH OF STAS. 



It is surely bad enough for our great chemist of the 

 United States, the Chief Chemist of the Department of the 

 Interior and of the American Chemical Society, to ruth- 

 lessly destroy our old faith in "die Erhaltung des Stojfes" 

 which was transmitted to us through our Chemical Saint 

 Lavoisier from the Greek Sages; but for Frank Wiggles- 

 worth Clarke to ignore the highest chemical authority of 

 Berlin is too much for me to stand without some action. 



In addition to this scientific reason, I have also a per- 

 sonal reason to feel the insult to the great official German 

 Chemist; for it was the abandonment of Schleswig-Holstein 

 by Prussia, after having urged us poor peasants on into war 

 against Denmark, that brought me to Copenhagen, and 

 later, when the appetite for our land became whetted in 

 Berlin, made it necessary for the German-born to pull up 

 stakes and go to Egypt. Really, I sometimes feel as if I had 

 been sold by my German brethren, as was Joseph of old by 

 his brothers. 



Der Herr Geheime Regierungs-Rath, Hans Landolt, first 

 Professor of Chemistry of the University of Berlin, has 

 demonstrated experimentally, that chemical combination 

 has no sensible effect on the weight of matter. His experi- 

 ments are much more delicate than even those of Stas; for 

 all weighings are given, in print, to the thousandth of a milli- 

 gramme^ while Stas did never go below the tenth and then 

 lumped it by 12 to 66 milligrammes, when necessary. 

 Besides Landolt's individual experiments extend over a long 

 period of time up to several years.* 



Der Herr Professor Hans Landolt has presented (vorge- 

 tragen) his results at the meetings of the Royal Prussian 

 Academy of Sciences, at Berlin, on March 12, 1891, and on 

 February 4, 1892. The entire research is published in the 



* Erste Reaktion from October, 1890, to March, 1892. 



