G-USTAV MAGNUS. 7 



He invited me at that time (I myself would not 

 have ventured to propose it) to extend my experiments 

 on fermentation and putrefaction in new directions, 

 and to apply other methods, which required greater 

 means than a young army surgeon living on his pay 

 could provide himself with. At that time I worked 

 with him almost daily for about three months, and thus 

 gained a deep and lasting impression of his goodness, 

 his unselfishness, and his perfect freedom from scientific 

 jealousy. 



By such a course he not only surrendered the ex- 

 ternal advantages which the possession of one of the 

 richest collections of instruments would have secured 

 an ambitious man against competitors, but he also bore 

 with perfect composure the little troubles and vexations 

 involved in the want of skill and the hastiness with 

 which young experimentalists are apt to handle costly 

 instruments. Still less could it be said that, after the 

 manner of the learned in other countries, he utilised 

 the work of the pupils for his own objects, and for the 

 glorification of his own name. At that time chemical 

 laboratories were being established according to Liebig's 

 precedent : of physical laboratories which, it may be 

 observed, are much more difficult to organise not one 

 existed at that time to my knowledge. In fact, their 

 institution is due to Magnus. 



In such circumstances we see an essential part of 

 the inner tendency of the man, which must not be 



