Dr. Andrew Ure ... : a slight sketch.

Date:
1876
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Credit: Dr. Andrew Ure ... : a slight sketch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and to demonstrate fa6fs considered impossible by his compeers in Science. Ofthis quality the detec- tion and estimation of Wood Spirit in Alcohol is a striking instance. From the beginning of his career he was noted as an experimental operator. We have seen a letter from the late Professor, E. D. Clarke, of Cambridge, in which, writing to Dr. Ure in 1822, he says:—“ I wish very much you had examined the small quantity of gas which you collected from Plutonium. It remained on my
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