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IN the October number of the Proc. Phys. Soc., Mr. “G. H. B.,” after quoting Wroblewski's paper “Die Zusammendrückbarkeit des Wasserstoffes” (Wiener Sitzb., 1889), says (referring to my paper “On the Critical Temperature of Hydrogen,” Bull. Acad. Cracovie, March 1895): “Natanson does not appear to have made any fresh experiments on the subject, and the conclusions arrived at in his paper are therefore not results of independent original investigation.” It is difficult to understand the right Mr. “G. H. B.” has to ignore the professedly theoretical character of my paper. To blame a writer offering theoretical deductions on the account of his not having made “fresh experiments,” is surely a criticism of extraordinary character. Wroblewski's critical data are not in the least the outcome of direct experiment, but have been calculated from an empirical equation, constructed to represent Wroblewski's compressibility curves. My reasoning and calculation are utterly different, being founded upon Van der Waals' law of thermodynamic correspondence. Besides, there are other points in my paper, and they have no relation with whatever Wroblewski has written. All this will be seen at once on comparing my paper with that of Wroblewski's. But from Mr. G. H. B.'s own words, it must be inferred that, before publishing what implies a serious accusation, he did not take the trouble of looking with his own eyes at Wroblewski's paper.
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NATANSON, L. The Critical Temperature of Hydrogen. Nature 53, 131 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053131d0
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