Baskerville, Charles

Baskerville, Charles. 1907. Finding of Radium Now Yields Precedence, in... 

Baskerville, Charles, The occurrence of vanadium, chromium, and titanium... 

The story of the defunct elements, those so-called elements which were later found to be complex, is most interesting, but the present narrative will be confined to the simple substances now recognized by chemists. The curious false elements, considerably more than a hundred in number, were described in a fascinating article by Charles Baskerville (2). 

Charles Baskerville once wrote a biographical sketch of Crookes, in which he gave the following pleasing description of his home (15) ... 

In Conan Doyle s The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dr. Mortimer, describing the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, informs Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that footprints of the perpetrator were found beside the dead man s body Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound. ... 

Discoveries of a very large number of new elements have been claimed in recent times. Charles Baskerville, in the presidential address delivered before the chemists of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, 1903, gives a list5 of more than 180 such announcements since 1777. Of these only about 36 may be considered as actual discoveries of new elements, while over 130 have failed of confirmation or have been definitely rejected because the observations were made upon impure materials or upon elements already known. Of the remainder some may still be considered as having an undetermined status and others are what we now call isotopes. 

Baskerville etah, 1902. Charles Baskerville, Louis Kahlenberg, Charles E. Munroe, William A. Noyes, and Edgar Fahs Smith. Report of the Census Committee . In Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the American Chemical Society. New York City, April Twelfth and Thirteenth, 1901, 99-137. Easton, Penna. Chemical Publishing Company. 

Baskerville (ed.), 1911. Charles Baskerville ed.). Municipal Chemistry. A Series of Thirty Lectures by Experts on the Application of the Principles of Chemistry to the City— New York McGraw-Hill. 

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