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CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS AND THE ARTS. 
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Arr. XI.—Strictures on a publication, entitled Clark’s 
Gas Blowpipe ; by Roserr Hare, JM. D. Professor of 
Chemistry in the medical department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, and the real inventor of the compound or 
hydro-oxygen blowpipe, in that safe and efficient form by 
which the fusion of the most refractory earths, and the vola- 
tilization and combustion of Platinum was first accom- 
plished. 
Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores, 
Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves, 
Sic vos non vobis Vellera fertis oves, 
Sic vos non vobis melificatis apes, 
Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra Boves. 
VIRGIL. 
Dr. Crarx has published a book on the Gas Blowpipe, 
in which he professes a ‘ sincere-desire to render every 
one his due.” That it would be difficult for the conduct of 
any author to be more discordant with these professions, | 
pledge myself to prove in the following pages, to any reader 
whose love of justice may gain for them an attentive perusal. 
In the year 1802, in a memoir republished in the 14th 
Vol. of Tilloch’s Philosophical Magazine, London, and in 
the 45th Vol. of the Annales de Chimie, I had given the 
rationale of the heat produced by the combustion of the 
aeriform elements of water, and had devised a mode of ig- 
niting them free from the danger of explosion. I had also 
stated in the same memoir that the light and heat of the 
flame thus produced were so intense, that the eyes could 
scarcely sustain the one, nor the most refractory substances 
resist the other, and had likewise mentioned the fusion of 
the pure earths and volatilization of the perfect metals as 
among the results of the invention. 
Subsequently in the first part of the 6th Vol. of American 
Philosophical Transactions, an account of the fusion of 
strontites, and the volatilization of Platinum, was published 
by me. 
