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meinen warmsten Dank ausdriicken zu wollen und ihnen zu sagen, 

 dass sie mich doppelt erfreut hat als ein Zeichen, dass ein alter 

 Chemiker, dessen Krafte nicht mehr gestatfcen, sich an dem weiteren 

 Anfbau der Wissenschaft selbst noch zu betheiligen, von der jiingeren 

 Generation nicht ganz vergessen ist, deren rase hen Fortschritten und 

 wundervollen Erfolgen aber immer noch seine Freude hat, gleich 

 dem alten Fuhrmann, der selbst nicht mehr fahren kann, aber das 

 lustige Peitschenknallen der jiingeren noch gerne horen mag. 



Mit vorziiglicher Hochachtung, 



Ihr ganz ergebenster, 



WoHLER. 



Wohler passed the eighty-second anniversary of his birth last 

 summer in good health, surrounded by his children, grandchildren, 

 and great grandchildren, and in the course of the day received visits 

 from various friends, colleagues, and pupils. He kept well through 

 the month of August, and enjoyed sitting out in his garden during the 

 warm summer weather. On the 18th September he did not go out 

 on account of the coldness of the weather, and in the course of the 

 evening was seized with a shivering fit. Fever soon came on, and on 

 the 23rd September he breathed his last. 



In accordance with his express wish his funeral was simple. The 

 service was conducted in the house by the University preacher. A 

 long procession of mourners followed the body to the cemetery. 



Wohler was twice married. His first wife, Franziska, daughter of 

 Staatsrath Wohler, whom he married in 1830, died in 1832, leaving 

 him a son and a daughter. In 1834 he married Julie Pfeiffer, daughter 

 of a banker in Cassel, by whom he had four daughters, and who 

 survives him. Two daughters remain unmarried — one of whom, 

 Fraulein Emilie Wohler, long acted as her father's secretary. 



A charming account of Wohler's stay with Berzelius in Sweden, 

 written by himself, is to be found in No. 12 of the " Berichte der 

 Deutschen Chemischen Gesellsehaft," 1875, under the title " Jugend- 

 erinnerungen eines Chemikers." 



Francis Maitland Balfour, the sixth child and third son of James 

 Maitland Balfour, of Whittinghame, Haddingtonshire, and Lady 

 Blanche, daughter of the second Marquis of Salisbury, was born 

 in Edinburgh on the 10th November, 1851. His father died of 

 phthisis in 1856, at the early age of 36, and his own health was for 

 several years far from being strong, so that at times his friends were 

 not wilhout anxiety lest he too should be attacked with the same 

 malady. 



The beginnings of Balfour's scientific career may be traced to the 

 influence of his mother, who endeavoured to cultivate in all her 



