704 STUDIES OS AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, xii., 



and disinterested motives, he soon acquired an ascendency over 

 the native tribes. 



In a work, " Marins et Missionaires," it is related that it was 

 the patriotic zeal and intelligence of Montrouzier that enabled 

 the French Admiral Febvrier Despointes to anticipate an English 

 annexation of the Isle of Pines. He also was the first to draw 

 attention to the mineral wealth of the island. 



In 1855, he was appointed military chaplain at Noumea, but 

 he resumed his missionary work in 1857, at Belep, in 1858 at 

 Lifou, in 1859 at Kanala, and in 1865 at Paita. Returning to 

 official life, he served, from 1872 to 1875, at the penal settlement 

 of Presqu'ile Ducos and He Nou, whence he was transferred to 

 the Military Hospital at Noumea. The burden of increasing 

 age, induced his retirement from active service in 1893. In 

 sunshine, among flowers, he spent his declining years, peacefully 

 and happily at the Monastery of St, Louis. His interest in 

 conchology was a pleasure to the last, so that his end was an 

 agreeable contrast to the dangers and hardships of his early life. 



Such courage and endurance as his was not excelled by martyrs 

 of the Colosseum. Like them, he was " in journeyings often, in 

 perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in weariness and painful- 

 ness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, 

 in cold and nakedness." 



He wrote comparatively little for publication, but was content 

 to supply other authors from his great store of knowledge and 

 material. The following French Scientific Societies counted him 

 a member, or published his works in their Proceedings : — Societe 

 Orientale; Societe Linneenne de Lyon; Academie Scientitique de 

 Lyon; Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux; Societe Imperiale d' Agri- 

 culture, Histoire Naturelle, et des Arts Utiles de Lyon; Academie 

 Scientifique de Montpellier; Societe Entomologique de France; 

 Societe d' Anthropologic de Paris; and the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Pliiladelphia. His contributions also appeared in the 

 Revue et Magazin de Zoologie and the Journal de Conchyliologie. 

 Either alone, or with collaborators, he wrote sixteen papers on 

 conchology, two on botany, two on entomology, and one on 

 carcinology, besides several on island faunulas. 



