DESCENT AND EARLY MANHOOD 9 



Naturalists and Physicians was held at Gottingen, 1 

 and Goessmann read a paper, entitled Ueber Leucin 

 und Essigsdure-Aldehyd. Two years later (16-24 Sep- 

 tember 1856) he attended the meeting at Vienna, 

 where he saw many noted men of science, including 

 Anton Schrotter, professor of chemistry in the Royal 

 and Imperial Polytechnical Institute, perpetual secre- 

 tary of the Academy of Sciences, and noted for his 

 researches on phosphorus; Baron von Reichenbach, 

 the technical chemist and discoverer of paraffin and 

 creosote; Wilhelm Haidinger, the mineralogist and 

 physicist, the discoverer of 'Haidinger's brushes/ and 

 director of the Imperial Geological Institute of Austria; 

 Ley dolt, the mineralogist; von Martius, the celebrated 

 Brazilian traveller and botanist; Franz von Kobell, the 

 mineralogist and poet; Vogel, the agricultural chemist; 

 Schafhautl, the mineralogist and technologist; and 

 Redtenbacher, the mechanician and director of the 

 Polytechnic School at Karlsruhe. 



During the years 1855 and 1856 Johann Lukas 

 Schonlein, the eminent pathologist and physician to 

 Frederick William IV, and the founder of exact mod- 

 ern clinical methods in Germany, had endeavoured to 

 establish at the Royal Charite Hospital hi Berlin a 

 laboratory for research in physiological and patho- 

 logical chemistry, and Goessmann was offered the 

 directorship. Had this project succeeded, it would 

 have been very gratifying to him, as he wished to de- 

 vote himself to animal chemistry a field of inquiry 



1 The yearly gatherings of the Deutsche Naiurforscker und AerzU were 

 instituted by Lorenz Oken in 1822, the first meeting being held at Leipzig. 



