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prescnt: Liebig, Woehler, 1 Bunsen, Magnus, 2 Dove 3 and a hostof others. Under such "auspiciis" the mceting could not butbe excellent. All sorts of honors and attentions were showereddown upon us from the grand duke and his young amiableduchess (the sister of the husband of your princess), thegovernment and magistrates, down to the very lowest in-habitants of the capital. I think indeed, that science has veryseldom been so much honored in its representatives, as it wasthe case at Carlsruhe some weeks ago.

Both their Royal Highnesses, all the Ministers, a numberof political notabilities and the chief Magistrate of the Metro-polis attended all the general meetings, holding out from thebeginning to the end. No less than three times we enjoyedthe hospitality of the reigning duke, supping, dining and takingtea with the court. Of other fcstivities there was no want:the finest plays were acted before the learned audience, splendidballs given in honor of the philosophers, the town of Baden-Baden, in the beautiful ruins of the magnificently situated oldCastle, treated the association in a sumptuous style, and thegood people of Durlach invited us to enjoy their deliciousgrapes in their vine-yards, celcbrating, what we call a "Wintzer-fest" (vintage-feast) in which beautiful young Ladies of thetown, clad in white, offcred in a graceful and highly engagingmanner the choicest fruits of the Land to the philosopherspresent, the number of whom was very great indeed, at leastfive or six hundred. In music-loving Germany nothing can bedone without songs and other musical Performances, and cer-tainly we had plenty of them, along with patriotic toasts and

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1 Friedrich Wöhler M. I). was born in 1800 at Eschersheim near Frank-fort, He worked under Berzelius for a short time and was professor of Chemistryat Göttingen where he died in 1S82. He received the Copley medal.

2 Heinrich Gustav Magnus Ph. D., professor of Physics at the Universityof Berlin, was born in 1802 at Berlin where he also died in 1870.

3 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove Ph. D. was born in 1803 at Liegnitz. He wasprofessor of Physics at Berlin tili his death in 1879.