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covered with portraits of Liebig and Bebzelius, MisTEELicnand Rose, and Latoisieb and Bebtiiollet, and Dumas —and,indeed, every foreigner wlio had added the least mite to theehemical knowledgc-fund—yet not one British face orna-mented Ins walls.

But " snrely,'' said we to the Doctor, " Pbiestley, thodiscoverer of oxygen, is worthy of a place among the others—and Black, the discoverer of 'latent heat' — and Cavendisii,too, he who first resolved water into two gases—and Wol-laston, who originally taught metallurgists how platinumcould be wrought—and Davy again, who added more, perhaps,to ehemical philosophy than any one mind that ever lived;Dayy, the discoverer of the alkaligenous and terrigenousmetals; Dayy, who demonstrated chlorine to be an dement,and thus deepened our insight into the affinities of things toan extent that chemists alone can appreciate-—and D Alton, towhom we owe the atomic theory, a theory that has been asvaluable to chemistry as that of gravitation to astronomy —and last, though certainly not least, Fabaday, the discovererof ' magneto-electricity,' whose Experimentell Researches havepoured such a flood of light upon the subjeet, that all whohave a reverence for the great wisdom-teachers of theworld cannot but entertain a worshipful feeling for one towhom they owe so much knowledge and so much happiness.''

But let us put the scientific attainments of the Rhenishpeople to a practical test. Do not let us deal with scientificpersona but with scientific things, for if there be a greater know-ledge of natural philosophy among the Germans than with us,we shall, of course, find in Deutschland a greater applicationof it than in England, to the purposes of ever) day life.

Now, in a preceding volume we have informed the readerthat a " bridge of boats," as it is called, constitutes at Coblenz