. McClure's magazine. t that thisparticular material might perhaps prove tobe one which was very abundant on theearth. I had occasion to make use of the word carbon in a lecture which I gave a shorttime ago, and I thought when I did sothat I was of course merely using a termwith whose meaning all my audience mustbe well acquainted. But I found out af-terwards that in this matter I had beenmistaken. I was told that my introduc-tion of the word carbon had quite puzzledsome of those who were listening to learned that a few of those who were un-familiar with this word went to a gentle-man of
. McClure's magazine. t that thisparticular material might perhaps prove tobe one which was very abundant on theearth. I had occasion to make use of the word carbon in a lecture which I gave a shorttime ago, and I thought when I did sothat I was of course merely using a termwith whose meaning all my audience mustbe well acquainted. But I found out af-terwards that in this matter I had beenmistaken. I was told that my introduc-tion of the word carbon had quite puzzledsome of those who were listening to learned that a few of those who were un-familiar with this word went to a gentle-man of their acquaintance who they thoughtwould be likely to know, and begged fromhim an explanation of this mysterious term;whereupon he told them that he was notquite sure himself, but believed that car-bon was something which was made out ofnitro-glycerine! Even at the risk of tell-ing what every schoolboy ought to know,I will say that carbon is one of the com-monest as well as one of the most remark- SIR ROBERT BALL. 189.
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