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THE publication in a recent part of Proc. Roy. Soc. (A, Sept. 1) of excerpts from the memoir of 1863 by Dr. R. Angus Smith of Manchester, on “The Absorption of Gases by Charcoal—(1.),” by the initiative of Mr. S. Lenher, calls to mind Angus Smith's service in collecting, with the help of James Young of Kelly, the scattered scientific papers of his friend Thomas Graham, in 1876. No more attractive account of the history and philosophy of the atomic theory exists than the short introduction which he prefixed to that volume. Physical chemistry was then being born, and the relevant ideas about atoms and the aether were in the foreground.
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LARMOR, J. Early History of Gaseous Adsorption. Nature 118, 586 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118586a0
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