40 LETTEES OF BEKZELIUS 



public acquainted with the results of my investiga- 

 tions. 



Meanwhile I have practically proved that ozone 

 plays an important part in the so-called voltaic 

 polarization of water, and that it is the cause, for 

 example, of the negativity of that portion of the 

 acidified water in which the positive pole of a battery 

 has been placed. 



I should be excessively obliged if you would take 

 an opportunity of letting me know what you think 

 of the conclusions which I have drawn from my 

 experiments. 



Is it not possible that we might sometime have 

 the honour and pleasure of welcoming you in 

 Switzerland? I do not think you would find our 

 country otherwise than agreeable. I have for a 

 long time had a great desire to see your interesting 

 country, but 1 having got a wife and nearly half a 

 dozen of children I am nailed down to a spot and 

 cannot think of moving much about. 



With the greatest respect, I have the honour to be, 



Dear Sir, 

 Your most obedient servant, 



C. F. SCHONBEIN. 



BALE, llth September 1840. 



I do not possess the original of Berzelius' answer to this 

 letter, in which Schonbein gave the first information of the 

 discovery of ozone, but only a copy (expressly described 

 as such) in Schb'nbein's own hand. In April "1840 



1 [The rest of this sentence is in English in the original. Tr.] 



