IN an article in the Moniteur Scientifique Quesneville Prof. Maurice Delacre, stimulated by a passage in “The Life and Work of Gerhardt” by E. Gnmaux, severely criticises the attitude which ...

Many had tinkered with arranging the elements. Decades before, chemist John Dalton tried to create a table as well as some rather interesting symbols for the elements (they didn’t catch on). And just ...