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an extremely interesting autobiog- I shelves of the Court Library and made 

 raphy. Like many others who have his own experiments. At the univer- 

 attained eminence in science, Liebig | sity things were not much more to his 



did not profit much from the existing i taste. He attended the lectures of 

 system of education; out as a boy he Kastner, regarded as an eminent chem- 



read all the books on chemistry in the 

 order in whicli they stood on the 



ist, but capable of telling his students 

 that ' the influence of tlie moon upon 



