38 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



Accept the expression of the sentiments of esteem and 

 consideration with which I have the honor to be, Sir, 

 Your very humble and obedient servant, 



JAC. BERZELIUS. 



STOCKHOLM, March 10, 1846. 



SIR, I embrace the opportunity offered by Mr. Ells- 

 worth, to thank you for two letters, one of which reached 

 me by Mr. Ellsworth, and the other arrived a few hours 

 after. I was much flattered by what Mr. Ellsworth made 

 known to me of your wish to possess a likeness of me. I 

 gave him one which they pretend is successful, and I sup- 

 pose he will forward it to you by this same opportunity. 



We have many thanks to present to you for the con- 

 tinued remittance of your Journal, the Academy of Sci- 

 ences as well as myself. The last number which reached 

 us is No. 94; so it seems that there are still wanting six 

 numbers before the termination of the Journal under the 

 old form. Professor Sefstrom, to whom you have sent 

 your Journal, has been taken from us by a stroke of apo- 

 plexy, towards the close of the last year. This loss is 

 greatly felt, for he was an active man, full of zeal, especially 

 in the application of the sciences to the arts. 



In the knowledge of what pertains to the manufactory of 

 iron, we have no one to be compared with him. His suc- 

 cessor in the School of Mines is Professor Akermann, who 

 is on the point of transferring the School of Mines of 

 Fahlun, where he is at present, to the capital, considering 

 this change to be advantageous, since the mines at Fahlun 

 begin to be exhausted. 



I am under great obligations to you for the trouble you 

 have taken to distribute the copies that were sent of my 

 paper on the Blow-pipe. Will you be good enough, when 

 an opportunity offers, to present my respects to our friend 

 Mr. Hare. I owe him a long controversial letter on scien- 

 tific matters ; but, to tell the truth, my time is so much oc- 



