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 . ighter side of science, which it has never lost sightof since. In 1816 Davy dealt a first blow u> the doctrine ofLavoisier, that all acids must contain oxygen, by proving thatwhat was then known as oxjmnriatic acid contained no oxygen,but was an undecomposed body—chlorine. In 1813 Faraday(p. 254) was appointed an assistant at the Royal Institution, andBrando became Professor of Chemistry on Davys resignat
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 . ighter side of science, which it has never lost sightof since. In 1816 Davy dealt a first blow u> the doctrine ofLavoisier, that all acids must contain oxygen, by proving thatwhat was then known as oxjmnriatic acid contained no oxygen,but was an undecomposed body—chlorine. In 1813 Faraday(p. 254) was appointed an assistant at the Royal Institution, andBrando became Professor of Chemistry on Davys resignation ofthe post. In his earliest lectures at the Royal Institution Davy hadlaid stress on the connection between science and industrj, andsome of his finest work was inspired in this way. His lectureson agricultural chemistry lie at the root of all subsequent CHEMISTRY. 87 1832) treatises on the subject, and lie uas the first to insist thatagriculture must look to natural science for a solution ot itsproblems. But a still greater example of the debt of mdustry toscience is the invention of the safety lamp (181G: p. 249) indirect response to an appeal from those interested in coal-. AMJ STEPHENSON LiJllS-(VMoriu and Albert Mustuw.) mining. With this discovery Davys active career comes to a Sn the death of Sir Joseph Banks, Davy was elected of the Royal Society, Wollaston (V., p. 752) refusingto be put into nomination. While he had made lew greatdiscoveries, the volume of Wollastons work was consider-able • his invention of the reflecting goniometer made moderncrystallography possible, and the metiiod of workmg phitinuinwas in the first instance due to him. His cautious criticism wasof the greatest service in the long discussions ot the atomictheory of Dalton. Prouts Hypotlie- sis. 88 PEACE, liETliESCIlMENT, ASD HEFOUM. [1815 In 1815-16 Williani Prout 1785-1850) published paiters onthe relation between the atomic weihts of the elements and the
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