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THE issue of the Revue Scientifique for July 8 contains the appreciative address of Prof. C. Matignon, professor of inorganic chemistry in the College de France, on the life and work of Priestley, delivered on June 15. In it he reminded his audience that Priestley was elected a foreign associate of the old Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris in 1772, that he was in sympathy with the Revolution of 1790 and that the legislative assembly conferred on him the title “citoyen francais” in 1793. Even during the Napoleonic wars, the relations between scientific workers in France and England remained cordial and Davy was awarded the grand prix by the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1807.
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Priestley Centenary in France. Nature 132, 203 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132203c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132203c0