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THE story of the origin of Wohler's association with erzelius has been told by Wohler himself, in the Berichte of the German Chemical Society in one of the most charming autobiographical sketches which have ever enlivened the formal pages of a scientific periodical. Readers of the Berickte-zxia their number is legion-will recall the picture of the young graduate of twenty-three who, with the ardour of the zealous neophyte, had journeyed from the cloisters at Heidelberg to seek light and leading from the great high priest at Stockholm. How with a beating heart he stood before Berzelius's door and rang the bell. How it was opened by a well-clad, portly, vigorous-looking man-none other than Berzelius himself; and how he was led into the laboratory as in a dream, doubting if he was really in the classical place which was the object of his aspirations.
Briefwechsel zwischen J. Berzelius und F. Wöhler. Im Auftrage der Konigl.
Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mit einem Commentar von J. von Braun. Herausgegeben von O. Wallach. Two vols. Pp. xxii + 717 and pp. 743. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1901.) . Price 2l. net.
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T., T. Briefwechsel zwischen J Berzelius und F Wöhler Im Auftrage der Konigl . Nature 67, 49–50 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067049a0
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