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Excerpt from A Memoir of Thomas Sterry Hunt, M.D., LL. D. (Cantab;)
When sending a copy of his Essay on Chemical Changes to a friend in 1853 he says: This last, unless I mistake, will reform entirely the theory of chemistry, and although I can scarcely ?atter myself that my ideas will all be admitted at present or even understood I am sure that a century hence my essay will be'a landmark in the past his tory of the science.
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