8 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



edge also obtained him the distinction of associate 

 membership in the Physico-Medical Society of the 

 University of Erlangen. 1 



In February of 1855 he was appointed Privatdocent 

 in the philosophical faculty, with permission to lecture 

 in all branches of chemistry and pharmacy, and soon 

 thereafter, on the promotion of his friend and colleague, 

 Heinrich Limpricht, to a professorship, he succeeded 

 him as first assistant in the Chemical Institute. From 

 1852 to 1857 Goessmann lectured on organic chem- 

 istry, on selected subjects in technical chemistry, 

 had charge of the instruction in organic and inor- 

 ganic analysis, and taught pharmacy to the medical 

 students. 



'He acted as my assistant in the laboratory/ writes 

 Wohler in 1857, 'and in this capacity he has served for 

 five years to my utmost satisfaction, and has aided me 

 most efficiently through his excellent knowledge and 

 his indefatigable zeal in teaching practical chemistry.' 

 From Professor Chandler we learn that Wohler en- 

 trusted to Goessmann his most advanced laboratory 

 students. 



It was during this period that he made his most 

 important researches and discoveries in organic and 

 analytic chemistry. The results of these various inves- 

 tigations some twenty-four in all first appeared 

 in Liebig's Annalen, 2 and established his reputation as 

 a careful, skilful, and productive investigator. 



In September 1854 the yearly meeting of the German 



1 Physikalisch-medicinische Societal zu Erlangen. 



1 Abstracts of these papers were published in the Annales de Chimie et 

 de Physique, by Charles Adolphe Wurtz, the eminent French chemist. 



