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of the fact that the new doctrinc, in removing from the fiele!of chemistry a couple of hypothetical bodies, was, for analogy'ssake forced to introducc fictitious Compounds, not by dozensonly, but by hundreds, — the oxy-sulphion, oxy-nitrion, andthose "nonentia". But enough of this subjeet, upon which Iam apt to grow warm and even angry. Although the resultsI have obtained from my recent investigations cannot but in-duce me to begin another, and I am afraid, endless series ofresearches. I shall for the present cut short the matter and in-d ulge for some thne in absolute idleness.

I am, my dcar Faraday

Yours most trulv

Bäle, June 25. 1858.

C. F. SCHOENBEIN.

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Schambein to Faraday.

My deär Faraday

I take the liberty to introduce to you ProfessorVischer' of Basle, an intimate friend and colleague of rnirie,who intends to make a stay at London for some time and iskind enough as to take charge of a parcel containing volu-minous letters, scientific papers and something eise destinedfor the Sovereign of the Royal Institution. It will perhaps in-terest you to learn on this occasion, that my friend, being anexcellent greek scholar, acted the part of a god-father, whenI christened tay Chile! "Ozonc" 19 years ago.

Mr. Vischer does, of course, not meddle in any waywith chemistry, but is in every other respects a true "savant",

1 Wilhelm Vischer was born in 1808 at Bäle, where he also died in 1874.He was Professor of Greek there, It was he, it will he remembered, whonamed ozone, deriving it from the Greek Word o^lw, smelling. Vide also p. 174..and p. 184.

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