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sation with Monge and other friends, and looked forward to another 

 early interview, when he would complete some autobiographical de- 

 tails. But what he intended to say was never spoken. He died two 

 days afterwards, and was buried in the Pantheon. 



Only one Fellow of this Academy is now living who was elected 

 before the death of Dr. Bowditch ; and there must be very few in its 

 present membership who knew him or ever saw him. But his work 

 and his reputation are their common inheritance. To keep alive his 

 memory, and do justice to his gigantic undertaking, is the loving ser- 

 vice of one who, in early life, was welcomed to the hospitality of his 

 thoughts and his books. 



