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THE monument erected by international subscription in honour of Lavoisier was unveiled on July 27, in the presence of M. Leygues, French Minister of Public Instruction, and many eminent men of science, including most of the members of the International Congress of Chemistry. The committee entrusted with the raising of the fund for the statue succeeded in obtaining a sum of 100,000 francs, Which was subscribed by admirers of Lavoisier in most parts of the civilised world. M. Moissantwas the secretary of the committee, and he acknowledged at the unveiling ceremony that there had not been the slightest difficulty in obtaining the means to erect the monument—many subscribers, indeed, were astonished to learn that Paris, where monuments abound, did not possess a statue of the eminent chemist whose investigations helped to lay the foundations of modern-chemistry. It is true that appreciation of the great chemist has been shown by the publication of his complete works, but these are only known to a limited number of students, and the people who live in the present are likely to forget how much they owe to the past unless they are reminded of their indebtedness by some striking monument in bronze or stone. For this reason, it is well that a permanent memorial of Lavoisier's greatness has now been erected.
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The Lavoisier Monument . Nature 62, 390–391 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062390a0
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