GUSTAV MAGNUS. 



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 Gustav 

 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 

 German 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 



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