PROFESSOR ULRICH'S LETTER.
TO THE EDITOB. Sir,—The manner and matter of Professor Ulrica's letter to his Lawrence correspondent must be refreshing to all thoße who regard the soience which he teaches as suoh a science should be regarded. It is most irritating to find professors of chemistry and kindred societies looking upon their profession as a kind of necromancy, the prinoipal use of which is to do fireworks and gunpowder tricks for the mystification of rustic audiences, or to write absurdly affected and farfetched reports in the public prints, stuck together haphazard straight out of books, and with a profound disregard at once of scientific accuracy and scientific simplicity. Professor Ulrich's manly and uncompromising description of his profession should be accepted as a lesson. It is perfectly unassailable from a scientific point of view, and it is to be hoped it will prove unassailable from any other.—l am, etc., Mineralogist. Dunedin, November 27-
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Evening Star, Issue 6760, 27 November 1884, Page 2
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