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dowed in his life time by public sub- 

 scription, and now containing his tomb. 

 But there was recently unveiled at 

 Paris a monument, of which an illus- 

 tration is here reproduced from La 

 Nature. The figure in marble is the 

 last work of the eminent sculptor 



by international subscription, was un- 

 veiled in the presence of the president 

 of the republic and his cabinet, and 

 commemorative addresses were made by 

 those most competent to tell of the 

 work of one of the greatest of men of 

 science and of benefactors of his race. 



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Monument of Pasteuk. 



Falguiere, who died before it was com- 

 pleted. Around the base are allegor- 

 ical figures, humanity offering a child 

 to be cured of the most dreaded dis- 

 ease, a shepherd relieved from all 

 anxiety for his flock, and the like. 

 The monument, for the erection of 

 which about $70,000 was contributed 



PROFESSOR VAWT HOFF. 

 In 1S95 the Prussian Academy of 

 Sciences called Professor J. H. van't 

 Hoff from the chair of chemistry at 

 Amsterdam to Berlin. He was to 

 receive a salary and a laboratory and 

 was to have no duties other than those 

 which he might choose to assume. In 



