. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. BUNSEN MPLMORIAL LECTURE. P,4] individuality and characteriHtics stand out in proniin,«nt n>liof .• with w^ich such things as thoones and u . 1 o^^^^S of. At a very early stage of the course the greater part« f two fee tures was deyoted to an analysis of mercuric oxide carded out hefm^ he class in the most precise and painstaking „,anner. The w a le hi J most ucid discussion of the yarious sources of erro? and lv. r
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. BUNSEN MPLMORIAL LECTURE. P,4] individuality and characteriHtics stand out in proniin,«nt n>liof .• with w^ich such things as thoones and u . 1 o^^^^S of. At a very early stage of the course the greater part« f two fee tures was deyoted to an analysis of mercuric oxide carded out hefm^ he class in the most precise and painstaking „,anner. The w a le hi J most ucid discussion of the yarious sources of erro? and lv. r in'; these errors to a minimum or by estimating them and tiie necessarv onrmi^Ur^n^ " '^ ""^'"n i"»- Concerning this side of Bunsen's character, and on the inlluonce exerted by his work on chemical theory, I can not do better .luote the judgment of Cannizzaro, Avho. in his eloquent eloge, uses the fol- lowing words: which • Bunsen did not take, any active pait in the theoretical discussions -. }P^^ P^'^^'® during that period of his scientific career, but lie was not indifferent to the fundamental arguments of chemical science: that IS, the atomic weights of the elements and the formulic of their com- pounds. While controversy raged he was sihMitlv eniplovcd in col- lecting experimental data and teaching how these can be l)est r- istic both of the writer and of his subject that I venture to (|uote it:. to an enumeration of the new expei order to settle doubtful ; Apropos of Bunsen's lectures, I may here relate^ a storv which is characteristic of the man. Although the motto of '^Lehr- und Lcrn-Ficiheit " i> that of e\ cry German university, yet it is obligatory on all candidates for puMic appointments to Ijring up certificates, signed l>y the professor, of attendance on specified lectures. Bunsen, consich'ring tiiis a matter of form, usually signed "Mit ausgezeichnetem Fh'; without f
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