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institutions of learning. They ask 6000 thlr., I be- 

 lieve, but they may be willing to take less. Be sure not 

 to forget this matter. 



Good old Berthold is dying, and old Conradi has 

 become so infirm that before long he may follow 

 Hausmann. You have probably known for some time 

 that our celebrated mathematician, Dirichlet, is dead. 

 Riemann has been made ordinarius and member of 

 the Society of Sciences a prodigious mathematical 

 head. I have been asked to succeed Hausmann as 

 Permanent Secretary of the Society. Wagner's disease 

 of the chest has led him to be placed on the half- 

 retired list, and consequently Professor Meissner, one 

 of our former pupils, has been called as professor of 

 physiology. As a result, the rooms in the Physiological 

 Institute have become so crowded that Boedeker was 

 obliged to transfer his laboratory to the old hospital. 

 As compensation for swallowing the disagreeable pill, 

 he received an increase of salary of 200 thlr. More- 

 over, I have obtained for him the work of preparing a 

 new edition of Berzelius's Chemie, and for Dr. Geuther 

 a new edition of Otto-Graham's Chemie. Hanssen has 

 received a call to Berlin and, I am sorry to say, has 

 accepted it. His daughter is engaged to a Prussian 

 office* , and so is Baum's oldest daughter. Both officers 

 were aides to counts and princes studying here. Now 

 I am through gossiping. 



Farewell, dear Gossmann, and delight me with more 

 news from you very soon. Best greetings from my 

 family as well as from Limpricht, Wicke and Geuther. 



1 K8nigliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen. 



