Biography of Berzelius. 107 
the lectures upon Animal Chemistry, and his work on the Blow- 
pipe have already been spoken of. 
The “Lehrbuch der Chemie” first appeared in Swedish. It 
was translated into German first by Blumhof, then by Bléde and 
Palmstedt, and the later editions were translated by Wohler and 
Wiggers. It was also translated into other languages, but did not 
pass through so many editions in any, as in the German, for be- 
sides the translations of Blumhof and Bléde, five editions have 
appeared. he last but one, the fourth, consisted, on completion, 
of ten parts. The fifth and last was commenced by Berzelius in 
1842, but was not completed, only five volumes having appeared, 
certainly very large, each one containing nearly .sixty sheets. 
The inorganic chemistry alone was completed. Of the organic 
part contained in the last two volumes, the most important—the 
animal chemistry—is wantin 
In this work Berzelius has treated very fully of all the facts 
appertaining to the science, with remarkable clearness, perspl- 
cuity, and apt illustration. At the same time, every subject is 
criticised in such an impartial and just manner as can be displayed 
only by one who stands as high in science as he did. The ar- 
rangement which he selected is indeed not a strictly systematic 
one, which, in a science so imperfect as chemistry, can certainly 
only be called convenient. But especially in the inorganic part, 
there is still a certain well-founded succession, such that it is very 
always declared himself strongly in favor of the application to 
organic chemistry of what we know of the modes of combination 
of the elements in inorganic nature as the clue by which alone 
we could arrive at a knowledge of organic bodies, still he was 
compelled to admit, that we were far from having advanced so 
far as to be able to treat of all organic bodies as radicals, oxyds, 
chlorids, &c., as in inorganic chemistry. ost of the assumed 
