SŁAWIŃSKI KAZIMIERZ Jędrzej Śniadecki (read Wilno 1933)

READING SPOKEN AT THE EIGHTH MEETING OF CHEMISTS' COLLEAGUES IN VILNA, Vilna 1933, pp. 18, form. 12 x 17, booklet binding.

From the text: "One hundred and thirty-five years ago, when modern chemistry under the influence of Lavoisier's genius was beginning to take its first steps on the road to today's triumphant march, Jędrzej Śniadecki was taking up the chair of chemistry in Vilnius, and no one at that time could have foreseen that this 29-year-old scientist would soon cover the name of Poland with glory, and that the University of Vilnius would become widely famous throughout the world...."