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American name is to be found. There is not only no Lord 
Lister, no Behring, no Koch, among the Americans, but no 
name of even secondary importance. 
Mr. Snyder’s second arraignment of American science has 
the physicists as the culprits. The theoretical works of Clerk 
Maxwell and the experimental work of Hertz on electrical 
waves, called out an army of investigators abroad, including 
such names as Branly of Paris, Bighi of Italy, Slaby, Count 
Arco, and Braun of Germany, Preece and Lodge of Great 
Britain, but not a single American. 
Our critic next takes up a recent continental work on metal¬ 
lurgy. He finds it to be almost a dictionary of names of Bel¬ 
gians, Hollanders, Germans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, and 
Russians. Two Americans appear in such a host, Professor 
Gibbs and Professor Howe, and yet, the critic remarks, America 
is the land of the steel industry and the home of the great trust 
Considering research on. the phenomena of ultra-matter and 
the aether, the writer finds no American worthy of note among 
the disciples of Crooks, Roentgen, and J. J. Thompson. 
Mr. Snyder next directs our attention to the work of the 
past quarter century which lias been expended in the attempt 
to unravel the mystery of the mechanism of the human brain. 
A whole library could be filled with the monographs, memoirs 
and treatises on this subject from Spain, Italy, Germany, Bel¬ 
gium, Switzerland and Austria, but in all of the many shelves 
and stacks of this brain library there is not even a pamphlet 
or reprint from America. 
The critic, having gained enthusiasm with the sweeping char¬ 
acter of this last conclusion, now takes up a much larger sub¬ 
ject, that of chemistry. Obscure lands, he says, like Sweden, 
Norway, Russia have often been to the fore, yet. the history 
of this wonderful science could be written in full detail with¬ 
out mention of perhaps more than a single American name, 
which according to our critic would be that of Professor Wolcott 
Gibbs. In physical chemistry, or “electro chemistry” as our 
ciitic calls it, the case is not much better. Not only has Amer¬ 
ica no name to place with Van’t Hoff, Arrhenius, Ostwald, 
and Raoult, but a list which should include the names of even 
