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fund of information and his proficiency in all ayes pertaining to 
chemistry seemed ns ~ less intimately connected with laborious 
of chemists. He was a welcome guest in every pao and a 
leading spirit wherever his lot was cast. peaker, he was 
singularly eloquent, while he showed with any of hi his countrymen 
that power over foreign tongues which sets Babel at defiance. 
In Paris, a poor foreign student, supported by no eg vee 
of University, church or science,—his influence was felt t 
markable degree. One of the cada of the Chemical Society of 
that city and its first President, to Rosing more than to any other 
man is doubtless to be attributed the tone and character of the 
earlier publications of this most distinguished Society. In that 
distant future when cosmopolitan journalism shall have become an 
“accomplished fact, the Répertoire de Chimie jure et appliquée will 
be remembered as a bold, and, all things considered, a remarkably 
a , 1 attempt to associate, in a purely scientific ente april, the 
men of many lands, Torn by internal dissensions, of 
x lanagement in which, let it ess be said, the foreign collaborators 
ily no part, the ito ok was merged, after five or six 
and takes rank " ae best among chemical journals; but there are 
chemists not a , and the Rédacteur en chef is of them, who 
lament the day a its now purely Gallic style and savor was 
tempered, if not improved, by an infusion of outer barbarism, 
0) i & Roni ; 
chemistry an ture, in the interests of his chair, until stricken 
bing ee in ee we died at Christiania on the 29th of March, 
it the Scandinavian capi “et on Hig pilot and in many a 
town, but in Paris, Edinburgh, Vienna, Parlermo, Milan 
and in more than one American oy abe memory of Rosing ay be 
cherished, and his untimely death h dep lored. 
| “a Junius Pirucker, the chvyecich, of Bonn, came. ‘ded, 
Sixty-seven ears, 
, Dr. Cuarizs JRAFTON Pacx, well known to all readers of this 
in 
-» May 5, 1868, aged 56 A notice of his 
another t number of this Lore ournal. 
VI, MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
_ L.A Treatise on ; with a collection of er 
to Tables, By uae Loomis. 8vo, 1868. Harper and Bros., 
ew York—This work is intended to serve both asa t xt-book 
! oo and at the same time as an exposition of the most 
