2C>6 STASIAN FOLLY AND FRAUD. 



Sitzungsberichte der Kgl. preuss. Akad. der Wissenschaften, 

 for 1893, PP- 3 O1 t 334. This is really the original publica- 

 tion, and should properly be given as the original source 

 whenever this research is referred to. 



It is disgusting to find this great work published in full 

 in the Zeitschrift of Ostwald, Leipzig, without any reference 

 to the Academy which has published it in its Transactions. 

 The one great reason for the support of such academies is 

 found in the publication of their Transactions. When such 

 plebeyan editors as Ostwald can publish such researches as 

 original contributions to their journals, the very existence of 

 the great academy of science is being undermined. 



The United States Patent Office also robs the Sitzungsbe- 

 richte of the scientific discoveries of Professor Emil Fischer, 

 assignor to C. F. Boehringer & Soehne ; elaborate formulae 

 and all. 



Not enough that Editor Ostwald publishes these great 

 researches, even in advance of their official publication by 

 the academies concerned, the chemical public is syste- 

 matically kept misinformed about these original publica- 

 tions, so that the "Jahrbuch" and in fact practically all 

 chemical records, ignore the academies, and exclusively refer 

 to the piratical (?) journals. 



Thus the great research of Landolt is commonly credited 

 to Ostwald's Zeitschrift (Bd. 12, pp. 1-34; 1893); also to 

 Berichte d. D. Chem. Ges. 1893; 26, 1820. I have not seen 

 one publication referring this research to the true source, 

 the Sitzungsberichte of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin. 

 Of course, I have dutifully given the proper reference, see 

 True Atomic Weights, 1894, p. 39, where the remarkable 

 opening sentence of Professor Landolt is quoted in English 

 translation. 



This same Editor Ostwald has acted in the same bad 

 spirit toward the Academy of Sciences of Copenhagen by 

 printing great researches presented by Julius Thomsen (in 

 Danish) to this academy as original contributions (in 

 German) to his Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, and 

 issuing this German paper long before the Danish original 

 appears in the Ovcrsigt. 



