Turner, Edward (1796—1837), natif de la Jamaïque, originairement médecin, plus tard professeur de chimie et membre de la Royal Society, à Londres. La correspondance enére lui et Berzelius, intéressante à plus d’un égard, date de 1829—1832.
Sir,
Understanding from Mr. Johnston218 that he is about to send a parcel to Stockholm, I feel happy in embracing such a favourable opportunity of presenting you a copy of an Essay which I have letely published on the chloride of barium219, and of opening a correspondence with one who has done so much for the science to which my labours are devoted. I am still occupied with the researches referred to at the close of the paper.
In the same volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which contains my Essay on manganese, I have given the result of an analysis of a meteorite from Atacama in South America.220 Being in the act of leaving Edinburgh when that paper was printed, I did not correct the proofs; and the result of a very inexact preliminary analysis
