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meinen warmsten Dank ausdriicken zu wollen und ihnen zu sagen, 

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

 Chemiker, dessen Krafte niclit mehr gestatten, sich an dem weiteren 

 Anfbau der Wissenschaft selbst noch zu betheiligen, von der jiingeren 

 Generation niclit ganz vergessen ist, deren raschen Fortschritten und 

 wundervollen Erfolgen aber immer noch seine Freude hat, gleich 

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

 lusiige 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 Gesellschaft," 1875, under the title " Jugend- 

 erinnerungen eines Chemikers." 



