Abstract
Mr. Chenevix, in the month of May 1803, presented to the Royal Society a paper, which was printed in the Philosophical Transactions for that year, respecting the nature of a metallic substance which had been offered to the public as a new simple metal, under the name of Palladium. In that paper he not only attempted to prove that the said substance, instead of being a simple metal, was merely a compound of platina and mercury, but he also described certain processes by which he had been enabled to produce it. He now expresses his mortification to learn that the processes he there recommended, as the least likely to fail, have been generally unsuccessful; and confesses he has reason to believe “that the nature of palladium is considered by most chemists as unascertained, and that the fixation of mercury by platina is by many regarded as visionary.” In France, he says, the compound nature of palladium has been more generally credited; M. Guyton, who was appointed by the National Institute to make a report upon Mr. Chenevix’s experiments, having repeated some of them, and having been led by the results to the same general conclusions as Mr. Chenevix.
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