STAS IAN HERESY. 2OJ 



How Editor Ostwald gets such manuscripts out of the 

 archives of these academies is quite remarkable, and ought 

 to be investigated. 



Now this truly wonderful chemical research of the 

 highest chemical authority at Berlin and consequently of 

 the world is absolutely ignored by our Chief Chemist; 

 the name Landolt is not even contained in the index to 

 authorities of the Constants of Nature of 1897. 



And yet this research of Landolt deals exclusively with 

 die Erhaltung des Stoffes. By this research it is experi- 

 mentally demonstrated that chemical action is totally with- 

 out influence upon the weight of matter itself. The limit of 

 precision has been carried to the very utmost in these 

 researches. 



Herr Professor Hans Landolt is, of course, thoroughly 

 convinced of the extraordinary exactitude of the work of 

 Stas he begins and ends with emphatic declarations to that 

 effect. 



Now, here it is where ordinary chemists are placed in a 

 dilemma. 



Both the greatest chemical authority of Europe and the 

 greatest chemical authority of America, are firm and pro- 

 found Stasians; and Stas himself used all his skill to produce 

 " total syntheses" which rest for their demonstrative force 

 on die Erhaltung des Stoffes. 



Yet, without even referring to this great work of Lan- 

 dolt, Clarke completely ignores that principle and, with true 

 and most becoming modesty, quietly used his own grandest 

 discovery of modern science, namely, that " mass " or 

 " weight in a given place " does depend upon chemical com- 

 bination. 



Clarke has not even mentioned this, his most wonderful 

 discovery, in -words he has simply stated it in numbers, 

 as a fact. 



Si Quaeris. Circumspice ! 



Like that great Architect Wren, of England, he seems 

 quietly to wait till the chemical world shall look about; it 

 will then recognize his most astounding discovery. 



