HONOR LIST OF CHEMISTS. 



Counting the two German-Austrians to Germany, the 

 one Anglo-American to the English, and the one French- 

 Swiss to France, we find: 



The 12 Founders 2 Swedes, 5 Eng., 4 Germans, i French. 

 " 15 Part IV. 3 " 3 " 5 " 4 " 

 " 27 Chemists 5 "8*9 " 5 " 



This honor list of Chemists having distinguished them- 

 selves bj reliability and precision in atomic weight work, 

 permitting the establishment of absolute atomic weights 

 by our method, shows some very striking facts greatly at 

 variance with commonly received opinions concerning the 

 standing of the leading Nations in Chemistry. 



The Germans are supposed to lead, far ahead in the race. 

 The French admit that (since 1870), and now, even under 

 Moissan, slavishly adopt the atomic weights of the a THREE 

 GERMAN CHEMISTS," and fail to recognize them to be false 

 even after it has been demonstrated by me in their own 

 Comptes Rendus. See pp. 153-157. The English, by the 

 Germans and the French, are supposed to bring up the rear, 

 at a very slow pace; and many of the English, in public 

 print, growlingly admit that position and demand the 

 imitation of German ways. Finally, nobody seems to 

 think that there still are excellent Chemists in Sweden; 

 some leading German Chemists actually publish old Berzel- 

 ian ideas as "new discoveries." 



But the above little table shows that, as a matter of fact, 

 Sweden, in numbers, equals France; in actual work, past 

 and present, it outranks France, as much as Berzelius 

 surpassed Dumas, whose great work of his early days is 

 forgotten and even condemned by the present Chemical 

 leaders in Fracice. 



