On Atoms and Molecules. 



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been constructed at a time before his work was known to 

 the writer. 



It is not supposed, as Rutherford has done, that the 

 positive charge of all atoms is composed of aggregates of 

 the positive charge of the hydrogen atom ; but it is supposed* 



that there exist positive bodies or charges as individual 

 separate entities having the values 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 units, 

 that is these multiples of the electron's charge. The masses 

 attributed to these individual positive charges are considered 

 to be constant wherever they occur and are given in Table I. 

 in terms of oxygen as 16. 



* See Note added in February 1922 at end of Part I. 



