LETTERS OF FRIEDRICH WOHLER 117 



resides. This is of great advantage as long as we have 

 no new laboratory. It is still uncertain whether we are 

 to have a new building, as the government has granted 

 only 27,000 thlr., instead of the 38,000 thlr. it will cost 

 according to the plans submitted. In order to design 

 a laboratory which shall be unsurpassed, I have sent 

 Limpricht and the architect Doltz to "Wiesbaden, 

 Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Mlinchen, in 

 order to inspect and study the details of all the labo- 

 ratories in those places. The agricultural laboratory 

 under Wicke is well attended, whereas Boedeker is 

 not popular with the medical students. 



I suppose you have an opportunity to read the An- 

 nalen, so I need not report anything concerning new 

 work. Perhaps you have already received the July 

 number, and know that the remarkable silicium- 

 hydrogen gas may now be prepared chemically in the 

 same manner as phosphorus-hydrogen gas. At pres- 

 ent, I am again experimenting with nitrogen-silicium. 



Nothing has occurred here that is worth mentioning. 

 A few have died (but no professors Oesterley, v. 

 Bobers) ; others are engaged, e. g. Frlein Augusta Baum. 

 I myself have become a grandfather for the second 

 time. All the members of my family are very well, my 

 three oldest daughters having accompanied me on my 

 last journey to the beautiful Bavarian mountains. I 

 have just now spoken to Geuther, who sends his best 

 greetings. He does not know what became of the 

 honorarium for your monograph. He will attend to 

 the matter and have the money sent to your brother, 

 if he has not already received it. 



