Testimonials in favour of Thomas Graham ... Candidate for the vacant chair of chemistry, in University College, London / [Thomas Graham].
- Thomas Graham
- Date:
- 1837
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of Thomas Graham ... Candidate for the vacant chair of chemistry, in University College, London / [Thomas Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![OF MR. GRAHAM. From John Dalton, D.C.L., F.R.S., fyc. fyc. To the Council of University College, London, Manchester, April 11th, 1837. My Lords and Gentlemen, Professor Thomas Graham, of the Andersonian Univer¬ sity, Glasgow, having become a candidate for the vacant Chair of Chemistry in University College, and requesting a testimonial from me, I may say that he is known to me personally and by his writings, and I think he is a gentleman of great promise. His Essays on the Diffusion of Gases, on the Arseniates and Phosphates, on Water as a Constituent of Salts, and on Phosphuretted Hydrogen, would do credit to any scientific chemist. I do not, however, approve of his adopting and defending the chemical notation of Berzelius, which appears to me equally to per¬ plex the adepts of the science and to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the Atomic Theory. I am, most respectfully, Yours, &c., JOHN DALTON, Letter from M. Mitscherlich, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Berlin, to Mr. Graham. [ Translation from the German.] Berlin, March 30tli, 1837. My dear and esteemed Friend, I should be much pleased if some articles in the new edition of my Chemistry, which I now send, would attract your attention. You would do me a great service by sending me such observations as would enable me to make the book more correct.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355539_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
