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NEW PROCESS FOR MAKING CHLORINE.

In the Mining .Journal of Saturday (21st inst.)
we find the following letters from Mr. Walter Wel-
don and Mr. Townsend Hook, in answer to the one
from Mr. Isham Baggs, in reference to the manu-
facture of chlorine, which appeared in the Mining
Journal of the previous Saturday (14th September),
and which, as relating to a matter of scientific
in-
terest, was copied into our impression of last Mon-
day evening.
having already given one side of
the argument—if only
in fair-play, we now readily
give insertion to the subjoined :
Sir,—l beg to claim, as a matter of simple justice,
space for a few words of most indignant denial of
the charges which are brought against me in the
extraordinary letter from Mr. Isham Baggs, which
appears in the journal of last week. One of those
charges is that I have
plagiarised from Mr. Baggs
the new process for the manufacture' of chlorine,
which I described at the recent meeting of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Mr. Baggs asserts that ‘‘ in 1:862, at the Soho
Works, Woburn," he communicated to my friend
Mr. Townsend Hook, of the Snodland Paperworks,
" the rationale of the whole process" which I de-
scribed and illustrated at Dundee, and more than
insinuates that Mr. Hook must have communicated
to me what Mr. Baggs thus alleges that he com-
municated to him five years ago, and that I thus
appeared in " borrowed plumage" at Dundee, pre-
senting "as the genuine coinage of my own brain"
what was really that of the brain of Mr. Baggs.
Permit me, Sir, to declare that Mr. Hook, whose
acquaintance I did not make until Feb. 24 last year,
has never at any time communicated to me
"the rationale" of any process for the manufacture
of chlorine ; that Mr. Hook has never informed me
of any particular whatever relative to any process
in any way connected with that manufacture ; that,
notwithstanding my having been acquainted with
Mr. Hook for the last 18 monihs, and having once
been present at an interview between that gentle-
man and Mr. Baggs, I was entirely ignorant until
yesterday, when 1 first saw his letter in your columns,
that Mr. Baggs had ever experimented with respect
to that manufacture, or had ever projected any im-
provements in it ; that there is no mention or hint
in all chemical literature, neither in the records of
any patent office in the world, of anyone before
myself having ever experimented with any process
for the perpetual recovery of the oxide of manganese
used iu the manufacture of chlorine at all really re-
sembling that patented by me ; that this process
was in very truth my own original conception, and
ha.§ been honestly worked out by me, without help
or hint from any one whatever; and that I still
fully believe, previous to the publication of my first
specification relating to my process, no one but
myself had ever performed it, even in the laboratory.
Mr. Baggs further charges me with having, in
my paper read at Dundee, made assertions with