AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
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Arr. 1_— Biography of Berzelius ; by Prof. H. Roser of Berlin.* 
On the 7th of August, in the memorable year 1848, Berzetius 
died at Stockholm, after long and painful suffering, in his 69th 
year 
Distinguished men, who, during a long and active career, have 
enjoyed a great reputation, may have attained their celebrity in 
ooh ways. 
a teacher draws round him by his theoretical and prac- 
extraordinary talent for illustration, he re nders even the most 
ifficult branches of science accessible to the inquiring public, or 
by an able combination of known facts, he opens the way to 
the most fruitful ideas, such a man may contribute to the general 
diffusion of a scientific spirit, and otherwise exercise the most 
beneficial influence. But if at the end of his career, we examine 
whether a void has been left by his removal, ie will often be found 
that science would have preserved, upon the whole, the same 
boundary if he had not labored for it. It Bit be that his influ- 
ence upon science, although considerable, has been only indirect. 
On the contrary, there are other men of special endowments, 
Dossesetgs in a high degree the talent for research, who oe ze 
* Delivered at the Public Meeting of the Academie der Wissénschaften, in 
on 8d July, 1851, and cited from the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, ve i 
October, 1852. 3 
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