AND SCHONBEIN 67 



and I trust that you will honour me soon with a few 

 lines in reply. 



With the profoundest respect, I have the honour to 



remain, 



Yours most obediently, 



C. F. SCHONBEIN. 



P.S. I trust you have received my paper on ozone. 

 BALE, 15th January 1845. 



This letter also was read at the Academy in Stockholm, 

 and a summary of it appeared in the Ofversigt of Kongl. 

 Vetenskaps Akadamiens forhandlingar [vol. 2. (1845) 

 p. 1.8]. Two days after this meeting, which took place 

 on 12th February, Berzelius sent the following reply 

 to Schonbein : 



XIII 

 Berzelius to Schonbein 



STOCKHOLM, \Uh February 1845. 



DEAR SIR, 



I thank you very much for your interesting 

 communication in your last letter of 15th January, 

 which I read before the Academy and which they 

 are publishing in their Transactions. I think you 

 have proved that ozone is always formed during 

 combustions in atmospheric air ; hence there only 



