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I HAVE the honour of speaking to an audience of many men whorn I have long venerated as my intellectual, although not my personal, teachers, and whom I admire as leaders in our common work for science. But however admirable the present, I am still. more impressed by the thought of the past associated with this place. When, not long ago, I was engaged in electrochemical investigations and almost daily sought for information and enlightenment in Faraday's researches, I did not dare to think in my boldest dreams that one day I should find myself standing on the very spot in which he was wont to give the first accounts of the innumerable results of his indefatigable labours, his indomitable zeal, and his inexorable love of truth.
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Elements and Compounds 1 . Nature 70, 15–20 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070015a0
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