We are fast dropping behind.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

In chemistry the case is not much letter.

Who can tell us any thing of the Sulfo-salts?
Who will explain to us the laws of Isomorphism?
Nay, who among us has even verified Thenard's experiments on the oxygenated acids,--Oersted's and Berzelius's on the radicals of the earths,--Balard's and Serrulas's on the combinations of Brome,--and a hundred other splendid trains of research in that fascinating science?
Nor need we stop here.

There are, indeed, few sciences which would not furnish matter for similar remark.