THE “INTERNATIONAL" IN SCIENCE.
it will be seen how highly these results and speculations were valued by tne> savants of ms own day. when I mention wie face that a committee or tm-. French Institute, to their undying honour awarded Sir Humphrey Davy in 1807 a medal founded by Napoleon “for the best experiment which should be made in the course of each year on the galvanic- fluid,” although England and France were at that time at war, and the two countries were animated by the most bitter animosity towards each other. Napoleon, it would seem, did not rise to the height of the occasion, like the French savants. For “all that the institute got for themselves was.” as Miss Edgeworth says, ‘ a rating all round in Imperial Billingsgate.” But. alas! there were those in. England who said that patriotism should prevent the acceptance of this splendid award. From “The New Chemistry,” hi “The Cornhill Magazine” for March.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1626, 29 April 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)
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