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ing activity between 1841 and 1845, and continued 

 so for several years more until he migrated to 

 Munich. It is still, I believe, a prosperous insti- 

 tution, carrying out the aims of its founder with 

 undiminished zeal and energy. One of those 

 chemists now living, who was young forty years 

 ago, told me a few days since that Liebig's 

 laboratory looked like an old stable. I believe 

 the building in which we are now assembled was 

 an old stable, but I fail to discover that it looks 

 like an old stable now. If Liebig's laboratory, 

 looking like an old stable, brought out such 

 results to astonish and benefit the world, what 

 must we expect of the beautiful laboratory in 

 which we are now met ? What would Liebig not 

 have given for the appliances and advantages 

 afforded by the well-equipped buildings of the 

 North Wales College at Bangor ? What would 

 Liebig not have given for the facilities which now 

 exist in these admirably-appointed lecture-rooms 

 in which we arc now met, and for the carefully- 

 equipped laboratories and working-rooms, and 

 places for special experimental work covering the 



