WOEHLER, FREDERICK. 



WYOMING TERRITORY. 809 



life-long friends and sharers of each other's 

 labors. Among the fruits of this fellowship 

 were the establishment of the doctrine of isom- 

 erisrn, researches in mellitic and cyanuric acids, 

 and upon the essential oil of bitter almonds, 

 and the investigation of benzoic acid, which 

 resulted in the discovery of benzoyl, and the 

 establishment of the theory of compound or- 

 ganic radicles. Their joint researches in uric 

 acid resulted in the determination of fifteen 

 new compounds. On the basis of these dis- 

 coveries the two chemists predicted the ex- 

 tension of researches of kindred character, 

 which, pursued by their successors, have re- 

 sulted in the discovery of numerous series of 

 organic compounds, each grouped around some 

 radicle common to all its members. Among 

 the later researches of Woehler may be men- 

 tioned those which he conducted with Sainte- 

 Claire Deville on boron and its compounds 

 with aluminum and nitrogen, which led to the 

 conception of a theory of the qrigin of borax 

 in volcanic waters; and those prosecuted with 

 Buff on silicon, which resulted in the discovery 

 of the spontaneously inflammable hydride of 

 silicon, and which promise for that element as 

 imposing an array of compounds as has been 

 grouped around carbon ; his improvements in 

 the preparation of nickel, and the observation 

 of the compound of carbon, nitrogen, and ti- 

 tanium in the lustrous copper-colored cubes 

 which are sometimes found in the slags from 

 iron blast-furnaces. "Of all the elements 

 known to the chemist up to the period of Woeh- 

 ler's cessation from work," says Prof. Thorpe, 

 '" it may be safely affirmed that there was not 

 one but that had passed through his hands in 

 some form or other, and the number of miner- 

 als and meteorites he analyzed is legion. In all, 

 he was the author of 275 memoirs and papers ; 

 of these, fifteen were published with Liebig." 



His principal published works are his trans- 

 lations of Berzelius's "Yearly Reports" and 

 Berzelius's "Text -Book of Chemistry "; the 

 " Grundriss der unorganischen Chemie und 

 der organischen Chemie " (Sketch of Inorganic 

 Chemistry and Organic Chemistry) ; " Mineral 

 Analyse mit Beispielen " (Mineral Analysis, 

 with Examples); etc. In summing up the 

 value of Woehler's work, Prof. Thorpe points 

 to the fact that he made Gottingen famous as 

 a school of chemistry ; and that on the com- 

 pletion of the twenty-first year of his connec- 

 tion with the university it was found that more 

 than 8,000 students had attended his lectures 

 or worked in his laboratory. " He was a man 

 that the world has delighted to honor, and there 

 was hardly an academy of science or a learned 

 society which has not in some way or other rec- 

 ognized his services to science." Prof, Wiirtz, 

 in reviewing his career, remarked that " with 

 him disappeared one of the few survivors of 

 that pleiad of savants whose labors and celeb- 

 rity date from the first half of the century, and 

 whom the men of my age were glad to call 

 their masters." 



WYOMING. Territorial Government The fol- 

 lowing were the Territorial officers during the 

 year: Governor, William Hale; Secretary, El- 

 liott S. N. Morgan ; Treasurer, F. E. Warren ; 

 Auditor, Jesse Knight, succeeded by Perry L. 

 Smith ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 John Slaughter. Judiciary, Supremo Court: 

 Chief-Justice, James B. Sener, succeeded by 

 John W. Lacey ; Associate Justices, Jacob B. 

 Blair and Samuel C. Parks. John C. Perry, 

 of Brooklyn, N. Y., was appointed Chief-Jus- 

 tice Sener's successor, but died before entering 

 upon the discharge of his duties. 



Legislate Session. The Legislature, consist- 

 ing of 8 Democrats and 4 Republicans in tho 

 Council, and 13 Democrats and 11 Republicans 

 in the House, met on January 8, and adjourned 

 on March 8. The following are among the 

 acts passed : 



To amend section 1 of an act entitled " An act to 

 preserve the public peace by preventing the display 

 of knives." 



To define misdemeanors and to provide for the pun- 

 ishment thereof. 



To prevent and punish circulation of obscene and 

 immoral literature. 



Concerning the occupation of the public domain. 



To amend an act entitled " An act to prevent the 

 spread of malignant disease among sheep." 



To amend an act entitled " An act providing for the 

 organization of school districts, schools, and for other 

 purposes." 



To authorize the Board of County Commissioner* 

 of the several counties to sink artesian wells at their 

 respective county-seats, and at other places in their 

 counties. 



To encourage and protect the interests of wool- 

 growers. 



To amend section 96 of an act entitled " An act to 

 provide elections, the manner of conducting the same, 

 and for other purposes." 



To establish and define a legal standard of time in 

 and for the Territory. 



Concerning preliminary examinations of persons ac- 

 cused of crime. 



To incorporate the city of Laramie. 



To define the offense of an aggravated assault and 

 battery, and to provide for the punishment thereof. 



To amend an act entitled " An act to create and reg- 

 ulate corporations." 



For the incorporation of churches, parishes, and re- 

 ligious societies. 



To punish certain persons for selling or otherwise 

 disposing of spirituous, vinous, fermented, or malt 

 liquors to minors or habitual drunkards. 



Authorizing the city of Cheyenne to issue bonds. 



Concerning the keeping of swine and goats. 



To punish the prescribing of poisons and other dan- 

 gerous drugs by physicians while in a state of intoxi- 

 cation. 



To provide for the revision and compilation of the 

 statute Jaws. 



To amend an act defining crime and providing for 

 the punishment thereof. 



To punish the procurement of abortions. 



To amend an act entitled "An act regulating the 

 branding, herding, and care of stock." 



To provide for the education and training of juve- 

 nile delinquents. 



To prevent the adulteration of foods, drinks, and 

 medicines. 



Concerning taxation of personal property. 



To render effective the laws of the Territory of 

 Wyoming within that portion of the Yellowstone Park 

 lyi'ng within said Territory, etc. 



For the propagation and culture of fish. 



