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Uurhdruckwci Arlhw Nanioysr, Millenmold CARL WILHELM SCHEELE (1742-1786) "Swedish chemist and harmacist. Independent discoverer created during Scheelds lifetime, shows him at the a e of about of oxygen. He discoveref arsenic acid, distinguished between twenty-five years. The original, a painted ivory mefallion, was nitric and nitrous acids, demonstrated the presence of tartaric, discovered by S. GullstrGm on September 20, 1931, when he citric, malic, and gallic acids in lants, and discovered lactic f i n d succeeded in running down a clue encountered in 1929. and uric acids in the animal Pea?m." (Mary Elvira Weeks It is &re re roduced by the kind permiuion of Arthur Nema er, "The Discovery of the Elements," Mack P r d i n g Co., Easton, publisher o f Otto Zekert's "Carl Wilhelm Scheele, sein e'en Pa., 3rd ed., p. 45.) und seine Werke." For loan of a co y we are indebted to Dr. This portrait, so far as known, the only existing likeness Ralph E. Oesper of the University of &ncinnati.
