Provisional programme of the tenth conference of the international union of chemistry

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1930
• Weight: 322 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000492904

✦ Synopsis

Duntlonald's sanguine expectations of retrieving tlie family estates by liis discoveries Itad led him into a number of iiionufacturing projects. Tlic motive was csccllent, but his pecuniary means, being inconinicnsurate witli the magnitude of his transnctions, its object wns frustrated. As liis son says, 'Our remaining patrimony melted like the flus in his crucibles, his scientific kno~ledge, as often happens, being uiiticcompinicd by tlie self-knowledge which ~onld liavc taught t h t lie was not, citlicr by linbit or inclination, a ninn of business.' \'hilt Admiral Cochrane writes thus of liis fntlicr, we can tlie more apprccintc tlic noble tribute he betirs to his fatlier in these words.

' Tltc rcntlcr will readily pardon nic for thus tlcvoting R few p g c s by way of a tributc to a parcnt whose tiieniory still csistu amongst iiiy nost clicrivlictl rccollcctions ; even though his discoveries, IIOW of national utility, ruined him, iind deprived his posterity of tlicir remaining pntcrnnl inlicritiincc.' " Lord Dundonnld finally gnve 111) tlic struggle and retired to Pnris, \diere he died in 1831. His last years were spent in tlic most dcprcssing povert,y-liglitenetl, ho\revcr, by tlic devotion of Itis family.