HONOR LIST OF CHEMISTS. 299 



And the English growlers at their supposed inferiority, 

 are wonderfully leading the -world in solid Chemical work. 

 It is true, they have caught the infection from Stas, and 

 their conclusions are sometimes badly in error: but their 

 actual -work, done in their despised little laboratories, is sound 

 and trite, like the old race itself; indeed, I confess that even 

 the aberrations of Crookes (probably due to his early asso- 

 ciation with Hofmann) are most fascinating, because they 

 are superficial only, not affecting the core, the real deter- 

 minations, which I have properly recognized as Berzelian 

 (p. 138). 



There can be no doubt, to-day THE ENGLISH CHEMISTS 

 LEAD THE WORLD, surely in this, the highest field of Chem- 

 istry. The names of Crookes, Ramsay and Rayleigh are 

 stars of first magnitude, and will, we hope, continue to 

 radiate solid and profound truth for many years to come. 



The other English Chemists, Roscoe and Thorpe, are 

 fully equal to any worker to-day in Germany. In France, 

 under the scepter of Moissan, we find no serious work done 

 in this field; only false work is awarded academic honors 

 PP- 16, (34, 151-158, 170- 



GERMANY, in numbers, barely exceeds England ; but its 

 great laborers in this field are all resting from the noble 

 work they have done and their glory is dragged in the 

 Stasian mire by the living Coal Tar Chemists. 



Only Clemens Winkler and Karl Seubert, are working 

 to-day in the way of the old master Berzelius; these two 

 alone, in the magnificently endowed laboratories of the 

 great Universities of Germany. Even the interesting text 

 book of Erdmann does not know the work of Swedish and 

 German Chemists of that great name, but gives the entire 

 modern corruption of Stas, Lothar and Dmitry. 



From America, we have been able to admit only one name 

 to this honor list, although so many are doing " atomic 

 weight work" as they have learned it in Germany, where 

 already old Chancellor Koch, of Goettingen, declared : 

 Sumimus pecuniam et mittimus asinum in patriam. (Carl 

 Vogt, aus meinem Leben, 1896, p. 138). The influence of 

 this element has been very unfavorable. 



