450 Miscellaneous -Intelligeence. 
ting his deep sense of the merits of the Ww puter and expressing a 
hope that in this nomination the world would recognize an homage aa 
to the man who = consecrated his life to Phew useful researches 
which had been already reco ognized by Europe, and which it was the 
w few men of science have married with a patent of nobility on the 
piekiegen table! Sweden had, however, yet one'‘more ovation for her 
beloved son. In 1843 he had beer a quarter of a century Secretary to 
the Academy, and on this occasion a festival was given in his honor 
The Crown-Prince was in the chair,—and a portrait of 8 chemist 
painted by Lieut. Col. Loder was presented to the Academy. 
In addition to the works already mentioned, he. sotiicdle a ** Manual 
of Chemistry,” which went through several Sditiowe; that o 41 con- 
sisting of ten volumes,—and, we believe, another larger oditiun has 
since been published. In 1822 he commenced the publication of an 
Annual Report on the Progress of the Physical Sciences, which has 
been publiched every year to the present time. 
fhe name of Berzelius has been too intimately connected with the 
of chemistry for the last forty years, for us in this slight sketch 
to give an adequate idea of the influence which his discoveries and 
generalizations have exerted upon the science. To him it is indebted 
This Seine tly | ole re-arrangement of minera r 
and contributed greatly to the advance of mineralogy. His discovery 
of selenium led him to investigate its various compounds, and re 
tion of the various salts. Subsequently, he psa. the compounds 
yo, ad and arrived at some of the most important — valuable re- 
ave yet been obtained by the analytical chem 
ilst 8 was writing the first edition of his “ Manual of 
” Dalton had promulgated his idea of the atomic constitution 
d so vy had made his great discov soos of the maple ba- 
‘he aws of 
oo a. the various olapests, giving to 
ed to obtain results perfectly 
h theoretica kek made on lalton’s laws. He 
was enabled to Sceill Dalton’s law that one atom of one body unites 
F one, two, or three, &c., atoms of another body, sae sheead that 
two atoms would unite with three and five. He also pointed out the 
great fact, that two compounds which contain the same clec ae — 
ment of one is a multiple by a whole number of the same elem ne of 
the other. He not ee ite to the elementary bodies their ee 
numbers, but introduce system of symbols, by which ¢ | 
e ~ has been so on: facilitated. Till the time of Recealiionl organie 
