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teous, a geutleman of the old school, pressiiig Dr. Lea to take speci- 

 rneus and books, which he assured him were duplicates in his library. 



Dr. Lea went over his Uniones and corrected and rearranged them. 

 M. Verreaux's great collection of natural history was very fine, having 

 objects in every department for sale, and Dr. Lea procured there some 

 new species of fresh-water mollusca. One of the brothers was absent 

 twenty-seven years, spending most of the time in Africa in collecting 

 for the Government, most of which was lost on the coast of France 

 with all his manuscripts. 



On a visit to the Jardin des Plantes he found many things he had 

 not previously" seen. It is a noble institution, but Prince Charles, in 

 speaking of it, said it was " an anarchy." 



On presenting a letter of introduction from Professor Dunglison to 

 Professor Flourens, secretaire perpetnel de I'Academie des Sciences, he 

 was received most kindly, and told immediately, '' You are too well 

 known by your publications to need a formal introduction." 



On leaving him after a long conversation on various subjects. Pro- 

 fessor Flourens very kindly offered to introduce Dr. Lea to any one he 

 wished to know among the scientific men in Paris. On parting, he 

 asked Dr. Lea to meet him at the Institute the following morning to be 

 [)resent at a seance, saying that he would take care to give him a good 

 place and would be glad to make him a correspondent of the Institute. 

 Subsequently they met at the Institute, where he placed Dr. Lea near 

 the president, in the seat for authors who had papers to read. The first 

 read was very good, on " Morphism." Another "On the Doctrine of 

 Chances," by M. Bouamie, was exceedingly clear and well read, but was 

 objected to by another member in great heat, and much discussion took 

 place. There were a number of communications by absent members, 

 which were read by the secretary, M. Flourens. After adjournment, 

 M. Flourens introduced Dr. Lea to Milne-Edwards, who expressed great 

 regret that absence from town would prevent his seeing him again, as 

 he was going in the morning to the Pyrenees. He was also introduced 

 to Adolphe Brongniart, who made an appointment to meet him at the 

 Jardin des Plantes. While conversing on the fructification in fossil 

 ferns he was surprised that Dr. Lea had some from the Carboniferous 

 formation, and observed that they were very rare. He also met Pro- 

 fessor Chevreuil, the chemist, and M. Combres, the distinguished engi- 

 neer. Professor Flourens, after the meeting, which lasted two hours, 

 showed him the library, where he found ]\L Andresse, the librarian, who 

 said they had many of Dr Lea's works, and would be very glad to be 

 in possession of all of them. At the Jardin des Plantes he saw Adolphe 

 Brongniart and Keiner, who went over the fossils and recent shells with 

 him. He subsequently spent three hours with that eminent concholo- 

 gi^, M. Deshayes, and went over various genera of mollusca, especially 

 the Uniones. 



M. Deshayes agreed with Dr. Lea that the Unionidce in Europe were 



