Kane, Sir Robert, chemist, born in Dublin; originator of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science in 1832, and of the Irish Museum of Industry in 1846; was President of Queen's College, Cork, and President of the Royal Irish Academy in 1876; Published “Elements of Chemistry,” and other works (1810-1890).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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