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rorum erga A. H. Niemeyer de se juvenibus optime meri- 

 turn pietatis pignus. 



At 1 1 o'clock, M. Niemeyer was conducted into the great 

 hall of the university, in the midst of a brilliant assembly, 

 where he was addressed by Professor Schutz an octagena- 

 rian. The curator of the university then gave him a letter 

 of congratulation on the part of the king, accompanied by a 

 magnificent porcelain vase, on which was painted a portrait 

 of his majesty and a view of Potsdam. The king, by a deli- 

 cate attention, had chosen this day for granting a sum of 

 forty thousand thalers for the construction of new buildings 

 for the university. Several discourses were pronounced, and 

 the congratulations of the various universities of Germany, 

 were made known, as well as the public dissertations on ac- 

 count of the solemnity. 



At 2 o'clock, the University gave a banquet of one hundred 

 and sixty covers to the heroes of the feast. The celebrated 

 philologist, Hermann, of Leipzig, had composed for the oc- 

 casion some Latin verses ; others were recited in German. 

 The next day, at the request of the burgesses, M. Niemeyer 

 pronounced a sermon in the church of St. Mary, in which 

 were executed several choruses of the composition of Han- 

 del. On the same day, M. Niemeyer gave a fete to the uni- 

 versity, which was terminated by a soiree, attended by more 

 than two hundred persons. 



Not less than twelve remarkable works have been men- 

 tioned, which the savans in different parts of Germany have 

 brought forward on the occasion of this jubilee. The orien- 

 talist, Gesenius, has dedicated to M. Niemeyer, the first por- 

 tion of his great work ; Thesaurus lingua Hebrcece et Chal- 

 d<B03. — Idem. 



19. Chlorine and Chlorides. — About a year after the dis- 

 covery of chlorine by Scheele, the distinguished Swedish 

 chemist, Guyton De Morveau was very successful at Dijon, 

 in endeavoring by means of muriatic acid fumigations, to 

 purify a church, rendered very infectious by cadaverous ex- 

 halations, and also a prison in which typhus had made 

 some progress. Some years after, the same means were 

 employed to enable the laborers to remove, without danger, 

 the putrid masses which had been for many generations, col- 

 lecting in the burial place of the Innocents ; in 1792, Four- 

 croy made use of it, to disinfect the dissecting rooms and 



