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 ; thei-e is a time when it is impossible to remain neg- 

 lectful ; it is, when separating gradually from each other, we may re- 

 peal to those we love, all that esteem, tenderness, and gratitude have 

 inspired us with toivards them. * * * I say 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 of his daughter. 



I have always admired the sagacity of his researches, his resolute 

 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, 1 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 his admirable philosophy. 



Bib. Univ. Fev. 1832. 



Art. XX. — On the Uses of Chlorides and Chlorine; by A. 

 Chevallier. 



Translated for this Journal by Prof. Griscom. 



The employment 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 

 present period. 



1. The 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 lamina. Memoir on the MelastomaccEe, p. 61, pi. 10. Prodr. 3, p 167 



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