THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL 
OF 
PHARMACY. 
APRIL, 183T. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
ART. I.— CRITICISMS AND SUGGESTIONS RESPECTING 
NOMENCLATURE. By Robert Hare, M. D., Professor of Che- 
mistry in the University of Pennsylvania. 
ALSO, A LETTER FROM THE CELEBRATED J. J. BERZE- 
LIUS. 
[To the Editors of the Journal of Pharmacy.'] 
Philadelphia, March Ath, 1837. 
Dear Sirs — In September, 1833, 1 published in your Jour- 
nal, together with some encomiums upon the Treatise of Che- 
mistry by the celebrated Berzelius, certain objections to 
his nomenclature, and some suggestions respecting a substi- 
tute, which I deemed to be preferable. In the following 
June I addressed a letter to Professor Silliman upon the 
same topics, in which my criticisms and suggestions were am- 
plified and corrected in obedience to more mature reflection. 
A printed copy of that letter having been sent by me to Ber- 
zelius, I received in answer an epistle, of which I furnish 
you with a translation. 
Since the period of that correspondence, so demonstrative 
of candor and good feeling on the part of the great Swedish 
chemist, I have published two editions of my Compendium of 
Chemistry, in which I have pursued a course corresponding 
with my criticisms above alluded to. I am therefore desirous, 
in addition to the letter of Berzelius to lay before the pub- 
lic a recapitulation, review, and an additional explanation of 
the grounds upon which I have ventured to employ a language, 
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