112 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



tunity to take a broader view of the world by studying 

 men and conditions on a great scale. In particular, I 

 congratulate you on your success in your new field, and 

 having at this early stage improved upon the method of 

 refining sugar. Not being familiar with the regulations 

 governing patents, I am unable to judge of the merits 

 of your process. I am inclined to think that it would be 

 easier and more to your advantage to sell your process 

 to individual factories. In this I shall do all in my power 

 to assist you. First of all you might apply to Hurtzig. 



Respecting the new sugar plant, I have notified 

 Kopp by sending him the main points of your letter, 

 noting also that you intend sending the seed. Not 

 until after reading your exhaustive monograph con- 

 cerning this research can I judge of its adaptability 

 for publication in the Annalen. Meanwhile, I am in 

 favour of it, provided it is not too detailed and tech- 

 nical. This matter seems to me to be of great impor- 

 tance, provided the plant can be raised in Germany 

 and other countries. In the latter case you will have 

 the distinction of having introduced it into Germany. 



Here everything remains unchanged. Limpricht, 

 Geuther, and Wicke send their greetings. Wicke has 

 become professor extr., Limpricht and Boedeker asses- 

 sors at the University Society. Deville was here again 

 in the autumn. I am enclosing the results of our last 

 researches. 1 I presume you have seen in the Annalen 

 the paper on the new silicium compounds by Buff and 

 myself, as well as the experiments with titanium. De- 

 ville and I have now succeeded in producing a nitro- 



1 'Neue Beobachtungen iiber das Bor und einige seiner Verbindungen.' 



