JAMES MUSPRATT 85 



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to his lecture room and laboratory at 

 Giessen. 



Born in the town of Darmstadt in 1803, 

 he early evinced extraordinary talent, 

 especially in scientific pursuits; he went at 

 fifteen years of age into the employ of a phar- 

 maceutical chemist, and a year later to the 

 University of Bonn, from thence, after three 

 years' study, he was sent by the Grand Duke 

 of Hessen- Darmstadt to Paris, where he 

 remained two years, having as his con- 

 temporaries and companions Gay Lussac, 

 Dumas, Pdlouze, and other men of note. 

 In 1824, when only 21 years old, he 

 was appointed professor extraordinary of 

 chemistry at Giessen. 



In 1837 he attended the meeting of the 

 British Association, at Liverpool, on which 

 occasion the Council of the Association 

 appointed him to draw up a report on organic 

 chemistry. On his visit to Liverpool he 

 would have met James Muspratt, whose 

 works in the Vauxhall-road would have been 

 one of the objects of great interest to the 

 chemist. Liebig and Muspratt became 

 intimate friends. Three of the sons were 

 sent to study at the University of Giessen, 

 and their father frequently made the little 



