: JUSTUS VON LIEBIG. 267 
brought to me in the attainment of my own as well as our mutual aims, 
for by that association were united the peculiarities of two schools— 
the good that was in each became effective by co-operation. With- 
out envy and without jealousy, hand in hand, we pursued our way; 
when the one needed help, the other was ready. Some idea of this 
relationship may be obtained if | mention that many of our smaller 
pieces of work which bear our joint names were done by one alone; 
they were charming little gifts which one presented to the other. 
After sixteen years of the most laborious activity I collected the 
results gained, so far as they related to plants and animals, in my 
“Chemistry Applied to Agriculture and Physiology,” two years later 
in my “Animal Chemistry,” and the researches made in other directions 
in my “ Chemical Letters.” ‘The last-mentioned was generally received 
as a popular work, which, to those who study it more closely, it really 
is not, or was not at the time when it appeared. 
Mistakes were made, not in the facts, but in the deductions about 
organic reactions; we were the first pioneers in unknown regions, and 
the difficulties in the way of keeping on the right path were sometimes 
insuperable. 
Now, when the paths of research are beaten roads, it is a much easier 
matter; but all the wonderful discoveries which recent times have 
brought forth were then our own dreams, whose realization we surely 
and without doubt anticipated. 
Here the manuscript ends, and it is to be hoped that more of it will yet be found. 
Liebig’s reference to Wohler is very touching, and shows a side of his character 
which all his pupils knew well; they tell many genial stories illustrating his unself- 
ishness and kindness of heart. One could have wished that he had not considered 
the stories ‘‘ bordering on the fabulous,” of how he ‘“‘found favor in the sight of 
Humboldt, Gay-Lussac, and Thenard, out of place here.” They would have been 
far from out of place. Mr. Muspratt supplies one of these stories as he heard it 
from Liebig’s own lips, in the Miinich Laboratory, as follows: 
Liebig frequently spoke, in most grateful terms, of the kind manner 
in which he—a youth barely eighteen—was received by Gay-Lussae, 
Thenard, and other eminent chemists, in Paris. 
In the summer of 1823 he gave an account of his analysis of fulmi- 
nating silver before the Academy. Having finished his paper, as he was 
packing up his preparations, a gentleman came up to him and ques- 
tioned him as to his studies and future plans, and aiter a most exact- 
ing examination, ended by asking him to dinner on the following Sun- 
day. Liebig accepted the invitation, but, throngh nervousness and 
confusion, forgot to ask the name and address of hisinterviewer. Sun- 
day came, and poor Liebig was in despair at not being able to keep his 
engagement. 
The next day a friend came to him, and said, “ What on earth did 
