THE following quotation from J. A. Scherer's “Geschichte der Luftgüteprüfungslehre” (Vienna, 1785), may be of interest in connection with Prof. McLeod's letter on the invention of the word “Eudiometer ...
FOR some time past I have been endeavouring to find out the originator of the name eudiometer, which is now applied to the measuring tubes used in gas analysis, and possibly the result of the search ...