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The latest of the Alembic Club reprints gives us the papers of Archibald Scott Couper who, as is now recognised, shares equally with Kekule the credit for enunciating the theoretical conception of the Unking of carbon atoms in the molecules of organic compounds. Few conceptions have been more fruitful of results or had greater influence on the development of chemistry, and it is most desirable that the part played by Couper should be established beyond doubt. The studies of Anschiitz published in 1909 have done much to make clear his achievements, showing in particular that there was a delay in the presentation of his first paper to the Paris Academy owing to the dilatory action of Wurtz. Following the sympathetic biography of Anschiitz, the Scottish chemists combined hi 1931 to place a memorial plaque at Townhead, Kkkintilloch, where Couper was born hi 1831, the full circumstances being placed on record in the Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, vol. 50.
On a New Chemical Theory and Researches on Salicylic Acid.
Papers by Archibald Scott Couper. (1858). (Alembic Club Reprints, No. 21.) Pp. 45. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; London: Gurney and Jackson, 1933.) 2s. 6d.
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On a New Chemical Theory and Researches on Salicylic Acid . Nature 134, 49 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134049a0
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