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his remains were removed to his residence in Park Crescent, and were 

 followed to their last resting-place in the cemetery at Kensal Green by 

 a numerous assemblage of attached friends, with some of whom he had 

 maintained an uninterrupted intimacy from his early manhood, and by 

 several leading members of the scientific world, who felt it due to his great 

 merit to pay this last tribute of regard to his memory. 



This memoir cannot be more suitably concluded than by the expressions 

 of M. Dumas, perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, 

 uttered on the occasion of the removal of the remains from Paris : — 



" To render to genius the homage which is its clue, without regard to 

 country or origin, is to honour one's self. The Paris Academy of Sciences, 

 always sympathizing with English science, did not hesitate, during the 

 troubled time of the wars of the Empire, to decree a ' grand prix ' to Sir 

 Humphry Davy. Now in a time of peace it comes to fulfil with grief 

 a duty of affection to one of his noblest successors, by gathering round 

 his coffin to offer him a last homage. A foreign Associate of the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences, exercising by a rare privilege in virtue of that title all the 

 rights of its members during his life, we are bound to render to his mortal 

 remains the same tribute which we render to fellow-countrymen who are 

 our colleagues. The memory of Sir C. Wheats tone will live among us 

 not only for his discoveries and for the methods of investigation with 

 which he has endowed science, but also by the recollection of his rare 

 qualities of heart, the uprightness of his character, and the agreeable 

 charm of his personal demeanour. The friends that he has left among 

 us, unable to avert destiny, hope that they were at least able to soothe 

 the last hours of his life— of that life which, alas ! was closed away from 

 his beloved home, from that family circle the sweet recollection of which 

 animated his last hours, and to which the eye of the dying one turned 

 once more, before his soul, quitting its earthly tenement, took its flight 

 to a better world." 



Justus Lieeig was born at Darmstadt on the 13th of May, 1803. 

 He went to school at the Gymnasium of that town. His father was a 

 dealer in drugs and colours. Experiments in the production of colours 

 and chemical products undertaken by his father early excited in the 

 youthful Liebig a fondness for chemistry, which was further developed 

 by the study of the chemical works in the Darmstadt Library. It is 

 stated that in the fourteenth year of his age there was not a volume of 

 a chemical journal in this large library that he had not read through, and that 

 there was no chemical experiment which he had not repeated when his 

 means permitted. The ease with which he obtained all that was 

 requisite for experimenting procured for him early great dexterity in 

 the art of analysis. 



His was one of those fortunate natures which early becomes conscious 

 of its power, and he soon made up his mind to be a chemist. His father 



