The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-04

on NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Acid, and he found
that up to the year 1868 he had
written total of no less than
sevcnty-threc scientific papers on subjects
which had come before them. Professor
Wurtz WAS a great trainer Of youth. lie
had no less than 500 young men in his
chemical classes at Paris and Bordeaux, a
number of them being engaged in direct
original research. He was not only q
worker himself in the field which ha(
Welded such great results during the pas
year, and had compelled him mourntully
to exclaim, There 90 all the gases" but
he was a great expositor as well as those
who heard his lecture the previous night,
and witnessed his maryellously perfect cX-
periments would we'll know. The toast was
received with an applause which would
have been overwhelming to the guest Of the
evening but for his former initiation into
the curriculum of public dinners in Eng
land Speaking in English-thc lecture Of
the previous evening was delivered in
French Professor Wurtz said he felt the
spirit and temper Of Farady ought 10 be
his example, and he hoped he received the
compliment which had been paid him with
due modcsty. After warm tribute to
Farady the Professor sat down, but immc
diateiy rose to propose the health Of the
Chemical Society and its President, DR..
Gladstone. Among the services which the
President bad rendered toChemical science
there stood forward his discoveries in con
ncction with the coppcr-zinc couple, Sly
teen years ago he (thc speaker had TIE
honor Of delivering two discourscs before
the society He would not forget the great
kindness which had been shown to him ~
Engands scientific men, nor would lis
countrymen, whom, however unworthily he
represented. The President having Hk-
nowledgcd the compliment, Professor
FARMLAND proposed the toast Of The
Learned Societies" coupled with the MINES
of Mr.. Spottiswoodc and Professor Huxley.
Readers of Mr.. Sp0ttiswoode's severely
mathematical address at the British As,ocia-
ton at Belfast, would, perhaps, be hardly
prepared for humorous speech from
scientist Of SO sober calling. Dstcrm-
ming to give the company taste of his
rarer quality, the President of the British
Association on this occasion expressed his
faith in the principal Of dcyo,yng all work
upon secretaries, and accordingly called on
Professor Huxley, who happened to be one
Of the secretaries Of the Royal Society, to
reply for The double toast, The joke was
appreciated as much by Professor Huxley
as by the company at large, bot it did not
prevent him frcp proceeding to make some
serious and weigny remarks,
After Professor ITuyley's speech, there
was little to be done, save that Professor
Odlng proposed the health of the visitors.
There was, however, a great deal Of talking
over the tables about the grand scientific
questions Of the day, Of u kind which can
only be heard from the leaders in chemical
research Students Of the electric light
believers in its ultimate succcss--were clad
to be informed on good authority, that at
the present u tvc.horsG gas-engine, consum-
ing only one cubic meter OF gas IN an hour,
is supplying "A light equal to 1900 candles
fact which seems decisivcly to settle the
cost, 80 far AS lighting on the larger scale is
concerned, No wonder that, with the dis
coverics Of the new powers conferred by ell
cctricity, the success Of the French chemist
in demoishing those venerable pigments,
the gases, and the determined efforts which
arc being made by spcctroscopsts to abol.
ish the elements to the limbo of cXplod.
ing fiction. A meeting of the chemical
society just now should be exceedingly
lively and interesting. The biologists,
headed by Mr.. Darwin, having taken the
lead in illustrating the principles Of cyoh.
ton IN external nature, II would seem that
the chemists are determined to br close