AND SCHONBEIN 37 



I trust you will pardon my writing to you so 

 often, and with the greatest respect 

 I have the honour to be, 



Dear Sir, 

 Your most obedient servant, 



C. F. SCHONBEIN. 



BALE, 28ta March 1839. 



Berzelius replied somewhat briefly to this letter. If, in 

 fact, though I am not quite certain about it, the passage 

 in Schbnbein's letter refers to his brief summary in vol. 

 xx. of the Journal fur praktische Chemie, which how- 

 ever was not printed till 1840, he rejects Schonbein's 

 interpretation with the following curt and severe comment : 

 "Even these outlines show that Schonbein has not 

 grasped the spirit of the electro-chemical theory." 1 I 

 imagine that the following letter of Berzelius relates to 

 this paper of Schonbein's, because in the Jahresbericht, 

 vol. xxi., it is discussed simultaneously with the paper of 

 Faraday's mentioned below. 



VI 

 Berzelius to Schonbein 



STOCKHOLM, 18th September 1840 



The permanent secretary of the Academy to 

 Professor Schonbein, Bale. 



The Academy has received your three treatises, 

 entitled, "Bericht iiber die Verhandlungen der 



1 Jahreslericht, vol. xxi. (1842) p. 33. 



