XVI MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. 



alone, but who can tell, how soon it would 

 have happened without him ? 



By his unwearied efforts to simplify Organic 

 analysis and to make it more accessible, he has 

 been rendering invaluable services to the young 

 chemist. He has also jimplified the apparatus, 

 and his improvements in it are now extensively 

 known and employed, having already superseded 

 much that was formerly in use ; and in this too 

 he has conduced to the great advances in his 

 favorite department of science. 



From the commencement of his brilliant ca- 

 reer, Dr. Liebig has been an unflinching op- 

 ponent of traditional authorities, and has never 

 hesitated to attack the weaker parts of the old 

 school. It may be asked, does he not in the 

 place of old authorities set up his own ? Has 

 he not been too ambitious of founding a new 

 school ? We think not, unless we should honor 

 with his name, the school of all who are in- 

 spired with the love of truth and the ambition 

 of attaining the best methods of research. 



It cannot be wondered at, that a man like 

 Liebig should concentrate about him a circle 

 of young men, many of whom are blind to all 



