Miscellaneous Intelligeih 



world-renowned teachings of Liebig, at Giessen, 

 uated Ph.D., in May, 1848. The ^ears 1849-50-5 

 in chemical investigations in his private lahoratoiy 

 of chemical lecti 



He subsequently held no public position until his cKo 

 July, 1862^to the position of chemist of the .Agricultural Dv 



and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila. 



tion in July, 1862, to the position of chemist of tl 

 partment of the Patent Office, which post he c 

 1863. In 1866 he was elected to the chair of cl 



hemistry in the Le- 

 le of his death, 

 member of the American Philosophical Si - 



Geological Society of Vienna. In 1853, the de; 

 ^ ^ him by the K Y. Medical Colleg. 



1 which alone will he live beyond the memory of his :iss()ii;iti> : 

 nd in the annals of American science Wetherill will be kiu»\\ u 

 of many of greater temporary eclat will have 

 He was essentially a man of 

 ^ >8tly he 



-to bring within the bounderies of the known, 

 some of the extended region of possibilities and of conjectures. 

 His title to such conquests will chiefly rest on his paper, " Ut'h, ,- 

 neutrales schwefelsaures Aethyloxyd und dessen^ Zersetzungsi>r<>- 

 ducU mlt TFasser," An. der Ch. und Pharm., Ixvi, 117, and Proo. 

 Amer. Phil. Soc, 1848, and in his ''Experiments withtJieAiu- 

 monium Amalgam,'' Amer. Jour. Sci., 1865 and 1871. 



Innately truthful as a man and conscientiously faithful m all he 

 undertook, the body of his work will, we are bold to hope, stand 

 the tests of the revision of more searching methods which will be 

 added in the advance of knowledge. Another trait of^Dr. 

 Wetherill's character was a steady, systematic ; 



^■.f 



•ally founded on plans which he had previousiv 

 viewin^ on all sides. He leaves in the Lehigh 



^ ^ . all sides. He leav 



University laboratory a monument of himself, and no one can 

 visit that institution and walk through those beautifully equipped 

 rooms without seeing the mental characteristics which we have 

 mentioned. 



In his death science mourns the loss of a faithful servant, an. I 

 friendship casts upon his grave this tribute,— in heartfelt recog- 

 nition of his worth. ^- ^- ^^• 



Herschel, the Astronomer, died on the 12th of May, at the age 

 of seventy-three. „ 



Becquerel.— M. Becquerel, who recently died m France, was 

 not the physicist, but his son, Dumeril Becquerel. 

 ^ Geological Survey of Canada; Alfred R. C. Selwyn, Director. Report of Pro- 



"oiogical Survey 



(B. Westen 



