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plètes devront verser entre les mains de M. Bourgeau, avant son départ, 
une somme de 50 francs au moins. En raison du grand nombre de 
souscripteurs aux collections ordinaires, M. Bourgeau ne peut recueillir 
de collections complètes que pour les personnes qui auront effectué ce 
premier versement.—Toutes les collections seront d'ailleurs réparties 
d'aprés l'ordre d'inscription sur la liste de souscription. 
Vers la fin de la présente année, il ne sera distribué que deux cen- 
turies environ à chaque souscripteur ; et les 50 francs versés à l'avance 
ne seront déduits que sur le prix de la partie principale de la collection 
dont la livraison aura lieu peu de temps après le retour de M. Bourgeau. 
Vous êtes instamment prié de vouloir bien faire parvenir votre réponse, 
dans le plus bref délai possible, à M. Ernest Cosson, à Paris, rue du 
Grand Chantier, 12, ou à M. Bourgeau, rue des Blancs Manteaux, 11. 
Paris, 4 Février, 1851. 
[A printed circular, of which the following is a translation, has been 
communicated to us by Dr. Nees von Esenbeck.—Ep.] 
* ft is hereby announced to sympathizing friends, and to all who 
interest themselves in the matter, that by a ministerial proceeding I 
have been for the present suspended from my function as professor at 
the University of Breslau, and the branches of duties connected there- 
with. I make this announcement in the consciousness, that those who 
really know me will not connect this act of the Government with any 
dishonouring guilt on my part. Busy papers of the day, deriving 
their information from secret sources, will not permit much delay to 
take place in the disclosure of the affair; and that will be the time for 
me to take it up in continuation of the present notice. Only thus 
much will I add to-day: my guilt is of a personal nature, and such, 
that the letter of the law can only award an inadequate punishment; - 
inasmuch as the real punishment which the law must and will award, - 
depends not on her physical power, but on the judgment, which will 
be pronounced by contemporaries, according to their humane opinion 
of the accused individual. Meantime, I will submit to the pains and 
penalties inflicted in the name of the law ; while I calmly await the 
real judgment, which will be pronounced by the heart and mouth of my 
contemporaries, as soon as they shall have been properly informed of — 
the case, and have heard also what T have to say. 
* Dr. NEES VON EsENBECK. 
* Breslau, Feb. 1, 1851." 
