XV111 MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. 



stitution of the Organic Acids, and his experi- 

 ments performed in connexion with Mr. Wohler 

 on the Oil of bitter Almonds, on Cyanic Acid, 

 and on the products of Decomposition of Uric 

 Acid. These are but a few of his many im- 

 portant researches. 



Dr. Liebig, young as he is, has attained a 

 reputation which secures to him one of the first 

 places in the history of Chemistry, notwith- 

 standing the great opposition which his criti- 

 cisms have excited, and will continue to excite 

 as he advances. A few years since, Professor 

 Liebig was selected by Dr. Turner, to aid him 

 in the completion of the sixth edition of his Ele- 

 ments of Chemistry. To Liebig was committed 

 the department of Organic Chemistry. On the 

 decease of the lamented author, the work was 

 continued by Liebig and Dr. Gregory of Aber- 

 deen. The manner in which they have thus 

 far proceeded with their undertaking, has shown 

 that it could not have be.en placed in abler 

 hands. And the choice of Professor Liebig, 

 says his accomplished coadjutor, "has been rati- 

 fied by the unanimous voice of European chem- 

 ists, by whom he is admitted to be the first 



