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Such a recognition, though long delayed, the French Government 
bestowed both on La Place and on Lavoisier, by publishing mag- 
but we do not hesitate to say that the elegant volume before us, 
m which his two friends,—James Young and R. Angus Smith,— 
have embodied the ‘ Chemical and Physical Researches of Thomas 
Graham,” is the noblest tribute of all’ To the scientific contem- 
the Roman p te) 
could write the famous verse we have quoted above; but no friend 
of Graham can doubt that this literary tribute would be far more 
grateful to him than the bronze statue which adorns his native 
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their works when dead. Every student of science would have 
pa 
th 
and is seen with the perspective which time gives, the plan 
ppe oO 
Scholar than to bring together his scattered papers, and make evi- 
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“gations of Graham, and the service we have commen ’ 
been most ably rendered to his deceased friend by Dr. Angus 
Am. Jour. 8c1.—Turp Serres, Von. XIV, No. 80.—Aueust, 187. : 
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