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Excerpt from Autobiography of A. B. Granville, M.D., F. R. S, Vol. 2: Being Eighty-Eight Years of the Life of a Physician, Who Practised His Profession in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, the West Indies, Russia, Germany, France, and England
In the same vast scientific establishment of the J ardin des Plantes, I visited, during one of his brilliant lectures on iodine, Professor gay-lussac, who rose very soon to a well-deserved and high renown. He was kind enough to give me a small portion of that substance, just discovered, in a glass tube, which I was the first to exhibit at one of the meetings of the Royal Society in London, handing it over to Doctor Wollaston, who had heard of the discovery, but had never seen the violet vapour emitted by the substance when slightly heated.
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