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certained did not belong to them,’ and that his entire devotion to 
the simple truth, on all occasions, made him averse to the slightest 
degree of exaggeration, or even of coloring; and that, whether 
gifted or not with imagination, Dr. Young would on principle, have 
abstained from its indulgence. 
In all the relations of private life, Dr. Young was as exemplary 
as his talents were great, and his whole career was one unbending 
course of usefulness and rectitude. 
Art. I.—An Essay on Chemical Nomenclature, prefixed to the 
treatise on Chemistry; by J. J. Berzexius. Translated from 
the French,* with notes, by A. D. Bacur, Prof. of Nat. Philos. 
and-Chem. in the University of Pennsylvania. 
Tue nomenclature explained in this essay, is the language in 
which are recorded the labors of the most experienced chemist of 
our day, the author of a work rich in the philosophy as in the details of 
chemical science. It has also become, to a certain extent, the lan- 
guage of one of the most industrious portions of the chemical com- 
munity, the chemists of Germany. By the French translation, un- 
der the revision of Berzelius, of his Treatise on Chemistry, the 
system will be placed more immediately before the chemists of 
France, and will be introduced to the knowledge of many in Eng- 
land and in this country, who may not heretofore have had access 
to its stores in the original, or in the German translation. 
I have thought that by clothing this essay in an English dress and 
by adding notes explanatory of the views of the author, as develo- 
ped in his work, some of the difficulties may be removed which 
‘must attend the study by those used to a very different nomencla- 
ture ; and that thus an examination of the system may be induced. 
If even such a result should not be attained, the study of the work 
will, it is hoped, be facilitated ; a study which cannot fail to afford an 
adequate reward for any pains which may be taken in its prosecution. 
The notes are chiefly illustrative of the text; they attempt to 
show the views of the author when differing from those to which we 
* The present translation is made, after correcting the errors pointed out by the au- 
thor, in his list of errata for the first volume of the French translation, which volume 
he denounced, as being incorrect; the second volume was translated by another per- 
son, under the direction of Prof. Berzelius, and to this volume the corrections for the 
first were appended. With these emendations, it was virtually adopted by the author. 
