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Abstract

A NUMBER of very remarkable letters and hitherto unedited memoirs of the great Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who died in 1786, are to be published under the direction of Baron Nordenskiöld. The work will fill about 500 pages octavo, of the same size and print as Wilson's “Life of Henry Cavendish” (London, 1851). The Baron is considering the question of bringing out an Anglo-American edition of the work. As editor he may not be quite impartial, but he is persuaded that in importance and interest the book will be unsurpassed in historico-chemical literature. He hopes also to obtain permission to consult some of the papers on chemistry left behind by Cavendish. For instance, he would like to know if the date assigned by the Rev. Vernon Harcourt to Cavendish's researches on arsenic (Report of the Ninth Meeting of the British Association, held at Birmingham, 1839, p. 50) is exact, or if any error affects the determination of the date. Where are these papers at present deposited? Are they accessible to a foreign student?