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lapsing tubes, and steam-boilers, have been highly appreciated by 

 engineers. Many valuable papers on these and other subjects in 

 mechanical engineering were published by him in the British Associa- 

 tion Reports, the Transactions of the Royal Society, of the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers, and of the Philosophical Society of Manchester. 



Among Mr. Fairbairn's works may be mentioned: " Mills and JMiU- 

 work," '' Canal Steam Navigation," " Tlie Application of Iron to 

 Building Pnrposes," " Iron Ship Building,'' " The Strength and other 

 Properties of Hot and Cold Blast Iron," "The Strength of Locomotive 

 Boiler^," "The Iron of Great Britain," "The Strength of Iron Plates 

 and Riveted Joints," " The Strength of Hollow Globes and Cylinders 

 exposed to Pressure from without," " The Cohesive Strength of Dif- 

 ferent Qualities of Iron and Stone," *' The Strength of Iron at Different 

 Temperatures," and " Useful Information for Engineers." 



]Mr. Faii'bairn received many honors in recognition of liis valuable 

 labors. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Academy 

 of Turin, a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, and a 

 Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of Mechanical 

 Engineers. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of this 

 Academy in 18(i2. He received the degree of LL.D. from the Uni- 

 versities of Cambridsre and Ediuburjjh. He was made a Chevalier of 

 the Legion of Honor, and was created a Baronet in 18G9. 



He died at Moor Park, the residence of his son, Aug. 18, 1874 



rRAXgOIS-PIERRE-GUILLAUME GUIZOT. 



Francois-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot was born at Nimes, Oct. 4, 

 1787, and died Sept. 12, 1874. Thus his long life of eighty-seven 

 years stretched over the series of revolutions through which France 

 has passed in a century. His father was guillotined in 1794, and he 

 himself became an exile in 1848. He soon returned to his native 

 country, and for a quarter of a century was a witness of its latest ex- 

 periments and vicissitudes, but no longer a leader or even an actor in 

 them. 



Guizot received his education at Geneva, whence he removed to 

 Paris in 1805, to enter upon close and severe study, which soon bore 

 fruit and brought him into notice. One of his early undertakings was 

 an annotated edition of Gibbon's " Decline and Fall of the Roman 

 Empire," — a labor which helped to equip him for his distinguished 

 treatment of the same subject many years afterwards. Before the fall 

 of Napoleon he was made Professor of Modern History in the Faculty 



