330 ‘ Heinrich Rose. 
received into his family circle, or emery to the distinguished 
his death, Rose was in his lecture-room. On the day of his 
death he asked for his proof-sheets, saying that he felt much 
better and should soon again be well. He died in the afternoon 
of the 27th of January, of an inflammation of the lungs, after 
an illness of only six days.* 
orn in nearly the same year, his fellow-student in the labo- 
ratory of Berzelius, and Professor at the same University, Rose’s 
death took place within a few months of that of Mitscherlich. 
Differing completely in their dispositions and in the nature 0 
their minds, it is not surprising that their course in life and their 
success should have been unlike. They agreed only in this, 
that they both attained the highest eminence. It was Mitscher- 
lich’s fortune to make, in his twenty-fifth year, one of those 
great advances which open a new prospect in science. It was a 
step for which the age was waiting. It had been prepared by 
the labors of Leblanc, of Gay-Lussac, and of Beudant; it had 
most been anticipated by the theory of Fuchs. There was 
wanting but the last idea for the genius of Mitscherlich to con 
ceive. No such discovery fell to the lot of Rose. His works 
were eminently his own. Appropriating to himself a science, 
then in its infancy, but with rich materials for its more 
at his hand, Rose labored with untiring zeal, until he had bul 
p its every part into a perfect and enduring monument of his 
industry and his skill. } D. 
Professor Rose’s immediate family, there remain his widow, and a grand- 
daughter, the child of his only daughter who died a few years since, not long after 
her marriage wit: f. Karsten. 
