The Berzelius centenary celebrations

ON 20 to 22 September 1948 forty representatives of foreign learned societies and universities were in Stockholm at the invitation of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, the Royal Academy of Agriculture, the Caroline Institute and the Swedish Medical Association to join with them in their Commemoration of Jons Jakob Berzelius, who died on 7 August 1848. The opening meeting on 20 September was in the Town Hall, one of Stockholm’s most beautiful buildings, standing on the water’s edge, recalling in its outline the Doge’s Palace and St Mark’s at Venice. The ceremony began in the Blue Hall with a symphony by Lindblad played by the Stockholm Academic Orchestral Society, followed by a speech of welcome by the President of the Academy, Professor Gunnar Holim gren. Sweden was in mourning for the tragic death of Count Bernadotte, and the company stood in solemn silence for two minutes in his memory

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