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scorn and indignation of posterity. Dolonrieu emerged from his dun- 

 geon only through an article in the treaty of peace, and a premature 

 death, the fruit of such treatment, but too soon devolved on Haiiy the 

 place which he had so generously renounced. He was nominated the 

 9th of December, 1802. 



From that time new life was infused into the establishment \ the 

 collections were quadrupled ; an order, constantly conforming itself to 

 the most recent discoveries, reigned throughout. The mineralogical 

 public of Europe pressed forward, as well to observe objects so judi- 

 ciously arranged as to hear a professor so elegant, clear, and withal so 

 complaisant. His natural kindliness showed itself at every instant 

 towards all who desired to learn. He refused hi m self to no explana- 

 tions, but received in his privacy, and with eqiml benignity, persons 

 of the most opposite conditions in life ; for the mof.t learned and august, 

 as well as the humblest, might have been seen : n the retinue of Haiiy 's 

 disciples. 



From its foundation the University had felt itself honored in placing 

 the name of Haiiy on the list of one of its faculties, and, as no lessons 

 were required from him, an adjunct every way worthy had been as- 

 signed hmi in the person of Brougniart, since a member of the Acad- 

 emy, and his successor in the Museum of Natural History. But Haiiy 

 had no wish to bear a title without fulfilling its duties. He drew 

 around him the pupils of the normal school, and in varied and familiar 

 conversations initiated them into all his secrets. His college life seemed 

 thus to revive for him, as he entered even into the sports of these young 

 people, whom he never dismissed without an ample collation. 



In this manner his days flowed on, occupied completely by his re- 

 ligious duties, by profound researches continually renewed, and by acts 

 of kindness, especially towards the young. Equally tolerant and 

 pious, he suffered no difference of opinion to influence his conduct to- 

 wards others ; equally pious as faithful to his studies, he would have 

 allowed no contemplation, however sublime, to interfere with the ob- 

 servances prescribed by the ritual: placing, for the rest, on the things 

 of this world, only the value which they bear in the eyes of a man 

 penetrated by such sentiments. From the nature of his researches, 

 the gems of all Europe were constantly passing under his eyes, and 

 even gave rise to a special treatise from his pen ; but to him they were 

 only so many crystals; a degree, more or less, in some angle of a schorl 

 or spar would beyond doubt have interested him more than the treas- 

 ures of the two Indies. Indeed, if he can be reproached with too 

 warm an attachment to anything, it was to his ideas on this subject. 

 It was not without impatience, sometimes, that he saw them contro- 

 verted, and here only, where he had concentrated all his interest, could 

 a motive sufficiently powerful be found to disturb his habitual serenity 

 and kindliness. Thus he was prevented from accepting, with due ac- 

 knowledgment, probably, the observations made by means of the new 

 goniometer of Wollaston, on the angles of the calcareous and iron 

 spar. But who will not excuse a valetudinarian and recluse, who had 

 been attacked from the outset in the most unjust and offensive manner, 

 if he sometimes tailed to distinguish from his first ignorant assailants 



