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Art. I. — Historical Eloge of Louis FRAX901S Elisabeth 

 Baron Ramond, * Honorary Counsellor of State, Com- 

 mander of the Legion of Honour, Chevalier of St Michel, 

 Member of the Academy of Sciences, of the Academy of 

 Medicine, and of several other learned Societies. By M. 

 Le Baron Cuvier, Perpetual Secretary to the Academy 

 of Sciences. -|- 



In this biographical account of one of our most ingenious col- 

 leagues, I would have wished to confine myself to such of his 

 works as are connected with the objects of the Academy, and 

 to have spoken to you only of the natural philosopher, the bo- 

 tanist, and the geologist ; but this separation, become so diffi- 

 cult in our day for the greater number of the academicians, is 

 entirely impossible in the case of him of whom I am about to 

 speak. In him the philosopher, the man of fortune, the legis- 

 lator, were united in indissoluble ties ; it was often his duties 

 which led him to his observations ; and if he has given a bet- 

 ter description of the Pyrenees than any other, it was because 

 political hatreds obliged him to take refuge there. His situa- 

 tion at the head'of a department interesting to geology, enabled 

 him to bring to perfection the mensuration of heights ; in a 



* Translated from the French. 



t M. Ramond in his youth was known by the name of Carboniere. 



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