Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . A LABORATOllY.(•Book of English Tradts, 1832.) CHEMISTRY. 263 18461 to the science. The last survivor of the original members,Lord Playlair, was Grahams pupil at Glasgow. An earlier butabortive attempt had been made to found a Chemical Societyin Jiebiw on his return from England, summed up the situationby saying that the fault of Englishmen was to look exclusively. THOMAS GRAHAM, BV G. T. W
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . A LABORATOllY.(•Book of English Tradts, 1832.) CHEMISTRY. 263 18461 to the science. The last survivor of the original members,Lord Playlair, was Grahams pupil at Glasgow. An earlier butabortive attempt had been made to found a Chemical Societyin Jiebiw on his return from England, summed up the situationby saying that the fault of Englishmen was to look exclusively. THOMAS GRAHAM, BV G. T. WATTS, (;;i/ jxrmi^siim n/ the TJoi/dl Smnelil.) to practical results, and this weakness led to the fall of the firstand greatest school of chemistry we have had in this post of Professor was offered to Hofmann, one of themost brilhant of Liebigs pupils, and, on his acceptance, he atonce set to work. The list of his students includes many otthe best-known names of the day, and their work at once beganto appear in the Journal of the Chemical Society; but it iscurious to read in the reports of the college Hofmanns apologiesfor working on such useless substances as aniline, etc. It wassoon found impossible to fulfil the promises in the prospectus 264 THE NEW SIfRIT AND THE NEW PATHS. 11832-T846 as to analyses for the subscribers, funds fell off, and the Royal-College of Chemistry was absorbed into the School of Mines(p. 752). But about this time another result of Liebis^js Avork was seenin the foundation b} Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Lawes of theAg
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