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tertiary faima. His physicians soon interdicted all intellectual work 

 and recommended his return to his native air as the only hope of recovery. 

 He left Paris in the early part of August, a prey to the most gloomy 

 presentiments, and had hardly arrived at Gers, near Sansan, the scene 

 of his former labors, when he was heart broken by the national misfor- 

 tunes of the French, at the time of the foreign invasion ; his strength 

 failed rapidly, and he expired on the 2Sth of January, 1871, less than 

 two years after his appointment by the museum, bequeathing to us an 

 example of a life honorable, disinterested, and entirely devoted to science. 



