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and forty thousand francs. Hardly forty thousand were returned to 

 him by those who purchased the work. 



The patrimony of Barraude was but small, and to meet this great 

 expense, much beyond the means of a private individual, and such as 

 only a government was able to undertake, Barrande spent the income 

 of all his appointments ; that received from Charles X., that from the 

 Conite de Cliambord as preceptor, and that as manager of the fortune 

 of the elder branch of the Bourbons. For the prodigious fact remains 

 to be told, that Barrande, besides the scientific work which he did 

 without any aid save that of a copying clerk to whom he sometimes 

 dictated some of his descriptions, administered a fn-tune of nearly sixty 

 millions of francs, part of which was landed pro[)erty scattered from 

 the environs of Vienna to Venice and the Chateau de Cliambord. 

 The journeys he made to fulfil these duties, to Goritz, Frohsdorf, INIu- 

 nich, Venice, Modena, Parma, Paris, and Chambord,may be numbered 

 by hundreds, and the great capacities of the man are well shown by 

 the onerous and absorbing nature of his two so widely different occupa- 

 tions, and also by the placid and serene elegance of his bearing under 

 such great stress of work as lay upon his slioulders. Only a giant's 

 strength could calmly lift and carry such enormous burdens. 



He lived with great simplicity, putting all he had in his collections, 

 books, and above all in publishing his works. The Comte perceived, 

 doubtless, tliat his former master, liow become his most favored friend, 

 must spend moi'e than his appohitmeuts in his scientific work; and 

 when the head of the house of France visited Prague, where he found, 

 among the multitude of specimens, some difficulty in being seated for 

 want of room, he used to say, in leaving a large sum of money behind 

 him, it was his subscription to the Silurian System of Bohemia. 

 Each volume of this great work was justly dedicated to tlie generous 

 prince, and in the latest one, Prague, 8 December, 1881, he says, 

 "The unusual number of these illustrations [361 plates] shows clearly 

 the extent and the efficacy of your royal munificence, without which 

 all my efforts and all my personal sacrifices would have been power- 

 less to accomplish my task." By this liberality, the last representative 

 of the illustrious house of the elder Bourbons has earned the gratitude 

 of all the actual and future geologists and paleontologists the world 

 may furnish. 



The influence of Barrande on the progress of geology and paleon- 

 tology was not limited to the centre of Europe, but includes Spain, 

 Scandinavia, Great Britain, and North America. He not only pub- 

 lished some fossils of Canada and Newfoundland, but the large place 



