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Show A Man And A Chemist !-ROFESSOR Chandler, the great chemist, who for forty-six years has been professor of chemistry in Columbia university, will retire next June. He is about the best loved man In the , university. He never goes to a lecture that the I students do not cheer him to the echo. He thinks I that chemistry has a great future yet and I that the United States will lead. He has been 1 appointed on very many Important commissions. ' He was the head of the Metropolitan Board of ! Health seven years prior to 1873. He has been on commissions to investigate the subject of the American hog products, to investigate the preservation preser-vation of timber, to investigate the manufacture I of glucose, the denaturalization of alcohol, and the waterproofing of fractional currency and bank notes. We think it is a great pity that Prof. Chandler did not come west forty years ago and devote his attention to the reducing of ores. Great strides have been made since then, wonderful improvements improve-ments made in machinery and in chemistry, but our belief is that the work as yet is but half done; that When the world is entirely enlightened it will be possible with cheap material, to save all the great machinery now used in the reduction reduc-tion of ores, beyond grinding them pretty fine; that then the pulp will be put in boxes or tanks and by some liquid poured over them they will be absolutely disintegrated; the gold and silver and other metals will fall to the bottom and the matrix that held them will be washed away. But the amount of good work that this Professor Profes-sor Chandler has performed cannot be measured by any human process. He has in his department depart-ment shown that what Napoleon said was true, that men are nothing, a man is everything. |