 In a 1798 paper read before the Institut de France , Vauquelin reported that he found a new " earth " by dissolving aluminium hydroxide from emerald and beryl in an additional alkali . The editors of the journal Annales de Chimie et de Physique named the new earth " glucine " for the sweet taste of some of its compounds . Klaproth preferred the name " beryllina " due to the fact that yttria also formed sweet salts . The name " beryllium " was first used by Wöhler in 1828 . 
