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and when Liebig gave to the science a new meaning and a 
new method. That this opinion will prevail ere long there 
can be no doubt ; meanwhile it is the privilege of those who 
are more intimately acquainted with the work to assert their 
conscientious conviction of its value. It is indeed painful, 
after such reflections, to turn to a “ Jahresbericht ” of animal 
chemistry* for the year 1875, to find that the only notice 
afforded in these pages of Thudichum’s work is taken from 
the “ Centralblatt,” which in its turn derived its knowledge 
from the “ Chemical News.” In the latter was published 
an abstract of a summary given orally at an ordinary meeting 
of the Chemical Society of London. It further appears 
that a communication had been made to Dr. Maly by 
Dr. Dreschfeld, of Manchester, whose name figures on 
the cover of this “Jahresbericht.” Dr. Maly concludes 
his notice with these unworthy words : — “ The critical 
remarks appended by Dreschfeld to his report, viz., that 
throughout impure smeary masses formed the bases for 
Thudichum’s new substances and new names, cause the 
omission of so extensive an account to be a matter of little 
regret. — M.” 
Leaving the immediate criticism of special research and 
current literature, we would dwell for a moment upon the 
accepted dodfrine that the best work and the greatest number 
of results issue from German laboratories. Without being 
desirous of entering into a controversy on this matter, we 
wish to indicate that there are workers in England who ap- 
preciate to the full all that Liebig appreciated of the methods 
of science, and who are, moreover, capable of carrying out 
those methods. There is an universal lack of scientific 
work, and especially of research in physiological chemistry ; 
but in any comparison between Germany and England, we 
are by no means disposed to concede the laurel to Germany. 
To those who are intimately acquainted with German scien- 
tific literature the fa 6 i is patent that the enormous mass of 
work published represents also Russian, Polish, Austrian, 
Hungarian, and Belgian, nay Italian, workers. It is also 
well known that as regards the large percentage of Russian 
workers, these are enabled, at the expense of their Govern- 
ment, to study science in Germany, and for the last twenty 
years all their work in physiology, chemistry, anatomy, and 
microscopy has been published in German periodicals in 
* Jahresbericht uber die Fortschritter der Thier-Chemie, von Dr. Richard 
Maly, Professor in Graz. Wiesbaden, 1876. 
