6 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANK 



years have passed, I can see you so plainly that I could 

 make a sketch of you. I need not assure you that I 

 shall take care of your son in the best possible manner. 

 I shall reserve for him the first place that may be 

 vacant. The lectures and laboratory work are set to 

 begin as early as the 15th of the month. It can be fore- 

 seen, however, that as usual only a few students will 

 be present. Therefore, I, as well as most of my col- 

 leagues, shall not commence until Thursday the 18th 

 of the month. 



With great respect, 



Your most obedient, 



WOHLER. 



Here, during the next five semesters, he heard 

 Wohler, Wiggers, and Staedeler hi chemistry, Bartling 

 and Lantzius-Beninga in botany, Weber, the renowned 

 physicist and revolutionist, in physics, Sartorius von 

 Waltershausen hi geology and mineralogy, Hausmann 

 in technology, and Bohtz hi the history of German 

 literature. Thus was laid a broad and solid foundation 

 for his future life-work. 



At the close of the summer semester of 1851 Goess- 

 mann, it seems, had fully determined to leave Gottin- 

 gen and follow the calling of a pharmacist. With that 

 purpose in view he went to take leave of his teacher. 

 Wohler, discerning in his young friend those endow- 

 ments and aptitudes of mind which promised success 

 in the field of science, pointed out the difference be- 

 tween practical pharmacy and scientific chemistry, 

 and urged upon him the expediency of abandoning the 



