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  <dc:title>Letter from Jöns Jacob Berzelius to Thomas Young, dated at Stockholm</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Thanks Young and the Royal Society for the honour of being made Foreign Member.
Received a kind letter from [Humphry] Davy a few months ago, and relieved to see that he is not upset by Berzelius's observations regarding chlorine and nitrogen, would welcome him if he travels to Sweden.
Corrects a few errors from Young's publication relating to the quantity of oxygen in chlorine.
Thanks Young for translating his work, criticises [Alexander] Tilloch's ruthless cutting [for the Philosophical Magazine], stating that [William] Thomson is a better editor [of the Journal of Natural Philosophy] and discusses the loss of [Ludwig Wilhelm] Gilbert's Annalen. Is surprised that Davy should be ashamed of his former relation with Dr [Thomas] Beddoes, as everyone is aware of it and it is a fact confirmed by Mrs [Anna Maria] Beddoes and captured in a caricature showing Humphry administering nitrous oxide [ laughing gas] to Mrs Beddoes, printed in the London and Paris.
Congratulates Young on his idea to publish a Pharmacopea Britannica [this was not realised until 1858].
Contains draft of Dr Young's reply</dc:description>
  <dc:date>16 October 1813</dc:date>
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