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chemistry was a waste, with here and there an attempt to explain the 
phenomena of living beings upon chemical eee -andey ich from 
the entire want of experimental foundation, was even worse than use- 
less. The compounds found in plants and animals were no t. supposed 
'o come within the category to which the laws of combination applied. 
Berzelius was the first to show that these 9 could be applied to ani- 
mal and vegetable products;-and in so_ » he opened the hl, fas 
the discoveries of Mulder, Liebig, Dumas, Bovsingtal, and o 
few. 
ness dre rew from a fellow-traveller “66 mine, nn wa fy ed me to in- 
troduce to him, the observation, ‘I would never have thought him the 
great man he is said to be.’ His attention to strangers was very 
great,—especially to those who took an, interest in chemistry. Wit 
these he would frequently spend hours in his laboratory, explaining his 
methods of working,—and on their departure, hé left the impression 
that he was the bonored party. He was an eatly riser,*and gave 
first part of the day to his most important work, whatever that might 
be. He seldom either wrote or experimented in omer leaving 
that part of the day for reading and social relaxatio had no 
ticular times for writing or experimenting ; when he had a work to fin- 
Writing, requiring further investigation, he would at —_ aye up th 
pen, and work perhaps s for weeks in his laboratory. men were 
more beloved in the city of Stockholm than Berzelius. 
ere the merits of this great chemist less, we might not be ae to 
afford to hint at any defects. But regarding him ata distance, bh 
entific research. His feelings were conservative, and thoug 
going ee “ to the new, he still clung ae tenacity to the 
was ‘the last chemist of pected Da 
of ihe clediaity nature of chlorin Evi en 
had given up their opposition, the ere n of Bei 
In the rece nt advances of organic chemistry, also, al 
) “ the physiology of plants and anin 
vi eye ofa critic, and withheld to the 
sion to some of the idtetved positions of this department of 
A letter from Rerzivs, (L’Institut, No. 764,) speaking ot 
States that on examination, it was found that there was a so! ng of 
the posterior half of the spinal marrow corresponding to the t th yo 
sal vertebra. 
