Xll MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. 



By an Essay on the nature of Fulminic Acid 

 (Knallsaeure), which he offered to the Acad- 

 emy, he gained the attention and friendship of 

 Alexander von Humboldt, who recommended 

 him to Gay-Lussac. That eminent chemist 

 opened to him his laboratory, which had never 

 before been accessible to pupils, and here Lie- 

 big finished his labors on the fulminic acid. 

 Immediately after his return from Paris, the 

 young chemist, probably through the recom- 

 mendation of Humboldt, was appointed to an 

 extraordinary professorship at Giessen. As 

 early as 1826 he received the appointment of 

 ordinary Professor of Chemistry in the same 

 University, and the Medical Faculty honored 

 him with its Doctorate. 



Among his independent scientific works, may 

 be mentioned his " Anleitung zur Analyse or- 

 ganischer Koerper," (Introduction to the Analy- 

 sis of Organic Bodies,) Brunswick, 1837, and 

 his " Practical Pharmacy," as a part of the new 

 edition of the "Manual of Pharmacy of Geiger," 

 Heidelberg, 1839, which was printed again as 

 a separate work in 1840. In partnership with 

 Dr. Poggendorf, in Berlin, he commenced a 



