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terre near the monument of Linne*, erected in 1885. The unveil- 

 ing took place in the presence of King Oscar of Sweden, all the 

 royal princes, the ministers of state, the invited descendants of 

 the Scheele family, and of numerous representatives of the state 

 and city governments, of the universities and the learned societies 

 of the country. Prof, von Nordenskjold delivered a brief dedica- 

 tion oration, and numerous wreaths of flowers were deposited at 

 the base of the monument as offerings from the institutions and 

 societies represented by delegates. This ceremony being over, a 

 state banquet took place, at which Prof. P. T. Cleve, of Upsala, 

 the biographer of Scheele, delivered a brief oration ; and Prof. 

 Retzius, of Stockholm, Prof. Waage, of Christiania, Prof. Curman, 

 of Stockholm, and apothecary William Sebald addressed the as- 

 semblage. A large number of congratulatory telegrams and mes- 

 sages from learned societies and eminent scholars from Sweden, 

 and from Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Paris, and 

 other cities were received and read. 



In the evening the Apothecaries' Society of Stockholm gave a 

 banquet to about two hundred and fifty invited guests. Apothe- 

 cary I. Nordin delivered the oration on Scheele as an apothecary 

 and chemist. Prof. Stahre, of the Pharmaceutical Institute of 

 Stockholm, communicated the thanks of the society to the chair- 

 man of the Scheele committee, Prof, von Nordenskjold, as well 

 as to the sculptor, Prof. Borgeson, and presented them with the 

 first copies of a Scheele medal, struck for this occasion in silver 

 and in aluminum. This medal bears a relief portrait of Scheele 

 with this inscription : " Carolo Guilmo Scheele, pharmaceutoe 

 chemico grati cultores Ordo Pharmaceut. Suecia" (the Swedish 

 order of pharmacists, grateful cultivators of their art, to Charles 

 William Scheele, the chemist). On the other side is a representa- 

 tion of Scheele's house and pharmacy in Koping, with the inscrip- 

 tion, " Domestici parietes ipsum, non farnam continuerunt " (the 

 walls of his house could not contain his fame). 



Besides notices in larger chemical and historical works, brief 

 biographies of Scheele have been published at different times, 

 mostly in Germany, and especially at the occasion of the celebra- 

 tion in 188G,but only a few in England and America. Of the more 

 recent ones are those by Prof. P. T. Cleve in Upsala, and by Prof. 

 F. A. Fliickiger in Strasburg,* and a brief sketch in Vol. XXXI, 

 pages 839-844, of The Popular Science Monthly. 



Scheele's writings, all in German, f of which the treatise on 



* Reprinted in vol. iv, pp. 188 and 208, of Pharmaceut. Rundschau, New York. 



f Although living more than half his life in Sweden, Scheele remained so much a Ger- 

 man that his knowledge of the Swedish language was imperfect ; his essays addressed to 

 the Academies of Stockholm and Upsala, as well as his correspondence, were all written in 

 German. 



