

LIBRA H 



UNIVKKSJTV OF 



CALIFORNIA. 



GUSTAV MAGNUS. 

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Address delivered in the Leibnitz Meeting of the 

 Academy of Sciences on July 6, 1871. 



THE honourable duty has fallen on me of expressing in 

 the name of this Academy what it has lost in Grustav 

 Magnus, who belonged to it for thirty years. As a 

 grateful pupil, as a friend, and finally as his successor, 

 it was a pleasure to me as well as a duty to fulfil such 

 a task. But I find the best part of my work already 

 done by our colleague Hofmann at the request of the 

 Grerman Chemical Society, of which he is the Pre- 

 sident. He has solved the difficulty of giving a pic- 

 ture of the life and work of Magnus in the most com- 

 plete and most charming manner. He has not only 

 anticipated me, but he stood in much closer and more 

 intimate personal relation to Magnus than I did ; and, 

 on the other hand, he is much better qualified than I 



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