Miscella n eous In teUige.nce. 





Emile Kopp, Professor of Chemistry in the Polytechnic; School 

 of Zunch, died on the 30th of Kovemher at the ao-e of fifty- 

 nine years. He was an Alsatian by birth, and held a chair 

 in the University of Strasbourg previous to 1848. He took an 

 active part in the revolution of that year, and was one of the Dep- 

 uties who escaped to Switzerland at the time of Louis Xanoleoii's 

 coup d'etat. While residing in Switzerland he w; 

 Professor of Chemistry at Lausanne, but he left the 

 untarily, with the other French exiles, when their rendition was 

 demanded by the French government. Passing into Enoland, 

 Kopp supported himself for several years as a private tutor at ]Man- 

 chester, and at the same time familiarized himself with the crreat 

 chemical industries of that vicinity. The influence of his sojourn in 

 England was strikingly manifest throughout his subsequent career. 

 After the lapse of several years he was permitted to return 

 to t ranee on the parol of one of the Senators of that peiiod (prob- 

 ably M. Dumas) who pledged himself that the returned exile 

 should in no way interfere with the imperial o-overnmeut. On 

 reaching Paris, Kopp opened a private laboratol-y for instruction 

 m applied chemistry, which was maintained for several years, and 

 was always filled with students. From this laboratory he was 

 called to the charge of extensive works for the manufacture of 

 steel at Saverne, m the east of France, which place he left some 

 years later to assume the chair of applied chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Turin, whence he was soon called to Zurich. 

 ^ h or many years Kopp exhibited great literary activity, and he 

 IS probably best known to the generality of chemists from his 

 remarkable compilations relating" to the history and pro'ness of 

 the coal-tar colors and of the madder colors. He was larSelv in- 

 strumental in writing Hofmann's famous report on the Cheinioal 

 Products and Processes of the International Exhibition of I'^tj" 

 as was duly acknowledged by Protl Hofmann. ^ This report, as is 

 well known, has served as a model upon whit-h most subse([uent 

 reports upon chemical matters have been based. But in s))ite of 

 much writing, he accomplished a great deal of work in the way 

 ■'"" ably m respect to the coloring matters just men- 



novel processes for making soda from saft^ and Vbi^the^rec^ 

 sulphur from soda-waste, and published numerous obsei 

 upon a great variety of subjects. 



His familiarity with the methods and processes of t. 

 chemistry, as applied in different countries was very ^n 

 hisjudgment of them was singularly sound and impaTti 

 labored untirmgly to inform himself of all improv--'-tc 

 covenes m the domain of chemical - * - ^ 

 at the time of his death one of the 



