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Chemical Shams. 
[May, 
From all these circumstances we should argue, not by any 
means that Mr. Buchan’s theory should be abandoned, but 
that we are here in presence of a “ residual phenomenon ” — 
of a something over and above what may be accounted for 
by temperature and degree of atmospheric moisture, and 
which invites further research. 
V. CHEMICAL SHAMS. 
By J. Hepburn Davidson. 
Cam. — Was he not held a learned man ? 
Wol. — Y es, surely. 
Cam. — Believe me, there’s an ill opinion spread then, even of 
yourself, Lord Cardinal. 
King Henry VIII. 
S N travelling through this vast world of toil, turmoil, and 
ill-feeling, we cannot help, as sufferers and on-lookers, 
feeling ashamed of some of the a<5tors who play a 
leading part especially in Science, baffling the honest endea- 
vours of those who are both morally and intellectually 
their betters, but have not yet secured a high pinnacle of 
position. 
Academicians, Fellows of illustrious Societies, and heads 
of Science and Art Departments, make it one part of their 
business to pounce down upon the unwary scientist who 
fails to pay them due homage. How many men of merit 
are still suffering from dominant cliques the very same 
treatment which Lamarck met with from Cuvier, and Wolff 
from Haller ! Who could not name a few such ? A little 
bird once flew to a certain chemist, and chirped in his ear 
that he would have been elected a Fellow of the Carolinian 
Society had he only behaved more respectfully to Professor 
* * * * * f 
All this is the more unjustifiable because we fancy our- 
selves living in a free land, not a frank-land,* or land of 
serfdom, as of old. Yet there is a farm not one hundred 
“ In the stye of this most bloody boar 
My son, George Stanley, is frankt up in hold.*’ 
