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peapiese should be illustrated. by experiments, he adopted this plan, and 
ise abandoned the old practice of reading lectures 
aon himself very. strongly on the inutility of. merely reading ae 
tures. Although he first adopted Dr. Marcet’s experiments in his clas 
room, he soon so far improved-upon wre that his own became a one 
for the chemical class-rooms o 
During the: early period of his rdsigoe at Stockholm, he practised 
the profession of medicine; and in 1807 was mainly instrumental in 
forming the Medical Society of that capital. In 1810 he was made 
President of the Royal Acade emy of Sciences at Stockholm and in the 
same year received the appointment of Assessor of the Medical Col- 
lege ; and was made a member of the Royal Yoar den Board. At this 
time, though scarcely more than thirty years of age, he had obtained 
great reputation as a chemist. He had published a work on animal 
chemistry, containing many original investigations on the fluids of the 
animal body, and which was subsequently translated—as, indeed, have 
been most of his aptonae almost every language of Europe. 
conjunction with Hisinger, he commenced, in 1806, the publication od 
a periodical work entitled, * Af handlingar i.Fysik, Kemi, och Mine 
ogi,” —which. contained a series of papers by himself, constituting some 
of the most valuable contributions that had yet been made to analytical 
chemistry. His labors Were regarded of so much importance by the 
200 dollars yearly for his chemical researches. 812, Berzelius 
visited England, where he was most cordially fe a 8 In that year 
he cémmunicated, through Dr. Marcet, a valuable paper to the Medico- 
Chiru urgical Spore i of London, “* On the Composition of the Animal 
Fluids.” In 8 he visited F rance and Germa ny—countries in which 
he was better pre than in Great Britain, as most.of his papers and 
in that of Sweden. I same year he was appointed Secretary to 
the Academy of Sciences—a post which he held till his — In 
1831 he ‘was allowed to retire from the active duties of his p . 
ship at the pape Institute, but he still held the title of hotoelie pro- 
essor. Up to this time he had resided in apartments provided for him 
at the building occupied by the Academy of Sciences,—where, 
his study and laboratory, so that he could with little 
nizing the most “ing ulead of his adopted soutien. In 1815 Ber- 
zelius was made a Knight, and in 1821 a 
Order of Vasa. In 1829 he received the 
was made a Baron. The intelligence of this ose was aitered to 
Berzelius by the hand of the King; who wrote himself a letter inti 
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