xxviii THE LIFE OF KARL WILHELM SCHEELE 



sentiment, did not endow it, like Scheele, with material wealth ; 

 he did not endow it with the means of warding off the most 

 obnoxious diseases to which the human and animal races are 

 heir to, yet how many people, of all the nations of the earth 

 put together, visit in the course of the year the birthplace of 

 Scheele (at Stralsund), if it be still in existence, or how many 

 make a pilgrimage to his shrine in the obscure village of 

 Koping on the western extremity of Lake Malar, where he 

 died and where presumably his remains are interred ? 



The writer has striven to do justice to Scheele ; if he has 

 failed, it is not for want of appreciation of Scheele's superb 

 genius, nor of the stupendous obstacles in his path, over 

 which he invariably triumphed. 



Eequiescat in pace. 



JOHN GEDDES M'INTOSH. 



