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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— I ESTEEM it a great honour to address you within these walls, about which there still hovers the ever fresh memory of him whose name we celebrate to-day, while we deplore his loss. I am fully sensible both of the great value of this honour and of the danger that attends it, and I have need to shelter myself under the authority of the great name of FARADAY. I have, therefore, chosen a subject connected with his earliest discoveries. The constitution of matter is a question of the highest importance with regard both to physics and to chemistry.
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On The Constitution of Matter in the Gaseous State 1 . Nature 19, 62–66 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/019062b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/019062b0