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Show NOTED CHEMIST IS DEAD IN RUSSIA ST. PETERSBURG. Feb. 2. Trof. Mendeleff. the celebrated chemist, died here this morning. Prof. Dimitri Ivanoyiteh Mendeleff received last vear at a meeting of the Roval society, London, the ( owlev gold medal, esteemed among chemists as be ing a high honor. He was born in Si beria, in lv''.4. and in aiiifion to being a distinguished ohemiet. was a geologist, philosopher and educator. In 171 he foretoM nof onlv the existence, but the general properties of three new chemi cal elements, each of which is now in the fable of elements under the names of gallium, scandium and germanium, respectively, thus, it has boon stater), "justifying his own words that the periodic law would permit the invisible to be seen and the unknown to be known. |