234 SIR RODERICK I. MURCHISON'S ADDRESS. [May 23, 1859. 



de vous annoncer, clier Chevalier, la plus affligeante des nouvelles, a 

 vous pour lequel M. de Buch. professait une si tendre amitie, k ce 

 grand nombre d'admirateurs de son genie, de ses immenses travaux, 

 de son noble caractere." Then, after describing tbe course of tbe 

 malady wliich caused the death of the great geologist, and recapi- 

 tulating their long and unvarying intimacy during 63 years, Hum- 

 boldt adds : — 



" Ce n'etait pas seulement une des grandes illustrations de notre 

 ^poque, c'etait aussi une ^me noble et belle ! II a laisse une trace 

 lumineuse partout oii il a passe. Lui pourroit se vanter d'avoir enor- 

 mement etendu les limites de la science geologique, toujours en 

 contact avec la Nature meme. Ma douleur est profonde : sans lui je 

 me crois bien isole ; je le consultai comme un maitre, et son affection 

 m'a soutenu dans mes travaux." 



Expanding the term " geological science " into " all science," let 

 these his own lines, penned in the moment of grief for the loss of 

 his most valued friend, be applied by geographers to the memory of 

 the great man himself, whom we all consulted as a master, and we • 

 then have in his own emphatic words the true characteristics of the 

 universal Humboldt. 



The Archduke John of Austria. — The last surviving brother of 

 the Emperor Francis, the beloved " Unser Franz " of every Austrian, 

 has paid the debt of nature at the good old age of seventy-seven. 

 One of nine brothers, most of whom were distinguished for their 

 acquaintance with the sciences, and one of whom — the Archduke 

 Charles — was the able opponent of Napoleon in the art of war, our 

 deceased foreign member may, without any flattery, be singled cut- 

 as a Prince who, loving geographical science, was at the same time 

 an accomplished mineralogist and botanist, and who has passed a 

 life so full of good deeds, that his memory will ever be cherished 

 throughout Germany. 



Brought up as a soldier to oppose the armies of revolutionary 

 France, the Archduke was eminently successful when, leading the 

 faithful Tyrolese, he commanded the army of Italy, which, in' 

 1809, defeated the Yiceroy Eugene Beauharnais at Sacile, on the; 

 Licenza (n.n.e. of Venice), and forced him back to the Adige, after 

 a heavy loss. Then followed a short period of glory for Austria ; for 

 though Napoleon was master of the city of Vienna, he lost his 

 prestige in the sanguinary repulse which the Archduke Charles in- 

 flicted on him at Aspem ; and the Austrian capital was so crowded 

 with wounded and dying French soldiers, that, if not reinforced 



