Uses of Chlorides and Chlorine. 129 
- Huber retained his faculties to the last. He was loving and be- 
loved to the end of his days. At the age of eighty one, he wrote to 
one of his friends ;_ there ts a time when it is impossible to remain neg- 
lectful ; it is, when separating gradually from each other, we may re- 
veal to those we love, all that esteem, tenderness, and- gratitude have 
inspired us with towards them. * * * Isay to you alone, adds 
he farther on, that resignation and serenity are blessings which have 
not been refused me. He wrote these lines on the 20th of December 
last ; on the 22d he was no more; his life became extinct without 
pain or agony while in the arms é his daughter. 
I have always admired the sagacity of his researches, his natn 
perseverance, his love of truth, and his resignation at once mild and 
stoical. 1 loved his amiable conversation, and his benevolent disposi- 
tion. While living, I consecrated his name to the gratitude of naturalists 
by giving it to a genus of beautiful trees from Brazil.* I have now 
endeavored to render the last homage to his memory ; happy shall I 
be if those who have known and loved him, find the portrait correct, 
—if young people learn from his example the value of resolute de- 
termination in the direction and concentration of labor; and espe- 
cially if those who are subject to the same misfortune, should learn, 
by the example of Huber, not to yield to discouragements on ac- 
count of their condition, but to imitate es admirable philosophy. - 
ib. Univ. oes 1832. 
Art. XX.—On the Uses of Chlorides and Chlorine ; “% ie 
CHEVALLIER. 
_ Translated for this Journal by Pror. Griscom. 
re Eeioioyrient of chlorine and chlorides in the arts of salubri- 
ty, in therapeutics, &c. has been so multiplied of latter time, it is 
conceived that benefit will arise from a statement of their uses at the 
resent period. 
s ¥; The us use of chloride of lime in destroying the odor of fresh 
paint. For this purpose the chloride is found to be effectual. 
‘Method. Provide shelves or boards about three feet long and two 
wide. Over them spread some hay slightly moistened. Powder 
this hay with the chloride, and leave it a few days in the apartment 
* Huberia laurina. “ag on the Melastomacez, p. 61, pl. 10. Prodr. 3. pili. 
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