Professor Dewar was able to announce to the Royal Society yesterday that he had succeeded in solving the interesting problem of reducing to a liquid the last of the gases which had hitherto befiled the efforts of chemists. Of course a claim was set up on behalf of another chemist—in this ease' the Russian Olszewski, of having anticipated the discovery; but Professor Dewar has apparently very good evidence to support his own claim to the credit of the discovery. The problem was solved in the same way as the liquefaction of air, the production of intense cold by means of enormous pressure; and there is n probability of other interesting discoveries being made by this means. is sinking fast. He is now almost beyond conversation; but he is comparatively free from pain, and is quite resigned to his fate. It need hardly be said that the most profound sympathy with the dying statesman igshown on all hands and particularly by those who were his serangest political opponents.
'13th May.
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