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boiling in strong acids injure the valves of diatoms, and especially those 
which have delicate markings; Bailey’s method as modified by your sub- 
. umboi 
Travels—[We have received from the venerable and distinguished Carl 
Ritter,* the illustrious Geographer of Berlin, the following “ Proposition,” 
and take pleasure in laying it before the American public in the hope 
that the appeal which it impliedly contains for American contributions 
may not bein vain. We shall be very happy to receive and transmit to 
Berlin pi contributions to the Humsoupr Funp which the friends of 
4‘In the course of centuries there springs up here and there a man who, 
uniting powers of investigation and generalization, like Aristotle or Leibnitz, 
represents in himself the multifarious science of his time. Among these 
few x Renee made belongs ALEXANDER VON Houpoup pt; bold and cau- 
life in science will never die, but will continue wen frat by its own 
inherent power. But his place in the world is left vacant, and that prompt 
and helpful love, that unwearied md fostering zeal w Heh the struggling 
scientific talent of every land found in him are departed. No one can 
ander von Humboldt. ertheless it is a natural wish to perpetuate be- 
yond his life through an ame om this noble covariant of his activity. 
“It is therefore proposed to found an institution under the name of the 
Humboldt. Stiftung, having for its object to a assistance to rising 
talent, wherever it may be found, in those directions to which Humboldt 
devoted his scientific energies, viz., scientific labors, and extensive jour- 
neys of exploration. 
“It is proposed to confide the distribution of any means obtained for 
this purpose to the scientific body of which he has been a faithful and effi- 
th ade, h 
draft and in conjunction with the Committee to establish the statutes of 
the Association , adapted to the amount of capital subscribed, and to apply 
its resources worthily i in assisting promising or already developed talent. 
In pursuing such an aim We recognize the hindrances which arise from the 
circumstances of this particular period. But we do not shrink in these 
ing forward the everlasting mission 
inds all nations in one, _ 
Ale: von Humboldt, and it seems to 
o impracticable thought, to unite in one efficient body the Princes 
Ss < Nobility to which he by birth be- 
tee the circle of trade who profited 
: in cultivated European circles 
mee he ee well een oe ae both worlds—to unite them 
‘all so so as to form a living anemianent $0 his name, which shall work on 
for science from age to age. 
Yi _ Whose done we bref ent ince wsting the lines Se p. 451. 
. SERIES, Vol. XXVIII, No. 84.—NOV,, 1859. 
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