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Prof. H. W. Wiley, who has been appointed chief chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture, is a graduate of Harvard...
Baron Justus von Liebig, the celebrated chemist, is to have a monument at Munich, on the Maximillian's Platz, in the public gardens. It is being made of Carrara marble, heroic size, by Prof. Wegmuller, of Munich...
Pass on a score of years, and what has our professor become? A workman with a sledge-hammer, trying to drive his hobbies into the heads of his pupils. If he be a chemist, the world to him is one great molecule, whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead...
...manner of horrible compounds. There were objections to this private laboratory. A peculiar odor was wafted into the entry every time I opened the door, and several violent explosions made my neighbors fear lest I should some day blow the house to pieces. But I had the true chemist's indifference to smells, and the greatest confidence in my own skill...
...They both protested strongly at first against my odoriferous experiments, but presently I succeeded in arousing some enthusiasm of the science in my classmate, and invited her in one afternoon to witness some interesting experiments. We had a very pleasant time, and I was gaining great renown as a chemist, when I discovered that the sulphuric-acid bottle was empty, and that before I went any further I must have it filled. I left Nell in my room, and hastened down town to an apothecary shop. I had to carry back not only the acid, but also a large bundle...