to call the attention of the Royal Society of England 

 to the fact that the science of chemistry as it is now 

 outlined and taught throughout the whole civilized 

 world is sadly in need of review and reconstruction. 

 I have also sent a paper, with explanations, to the 

 Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England. I make 

 these admissions to you to let you know that 1, as a 

 student of the same science, am urged onward by the 

 courage of my convictions, and firmly believe that 1 

 hold the key to a solution of many mysteries that 

 are at the present day agitating the entire field of 

 science ; and this, simply on account of errors that 

 exist in this great substratum of all the other super- 

 structural sciences. 



As the proper handling of the methods of proof 

 involve an almost limitless field of minor or relative 

 discoveries, it will be impossible for me to present to 

 you in the paper anything more than a most restricted 

 outline of a few of the errors to which I have called 

 your attention. 



1 wish to add further that these discoveries, after a 

 most rigid application of test by myself, during three 

 years, affect every other branch science now recog- 

 nized by the civilized world, and throw a flood of 

 light or understanding upon nearly all that has here- 

 tofore been regarded within those fields as unfathom- 

 able mysteries. This may seem to you a broad asser- 

 tion, but I am not willing to withdraw it until such 

 time as I may be convinced by others to be myself in 

 error of perception; a circumstance, 1 can consistently 

 prognosticate, that will never transpire. A recog- 

 nition of this fundamental truth now brought to your 

 notice, and hitherto unrecognized in all ages of the 

 world, whether it be applied as blind experimental 

 theory or assumed at the beginning as truth, throws 

 the light of understanding into every nook and corner 

 of the science of Astronomy, and reduces its unpro- 

 ductive theories ninety-nine per cent. It fixes the 



