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his friend, for the Corate de Chambord was all of these to Barrande, 

 the greatest French geologist of the century died, in his eighty-fourth 

 year, on the 5th of October, at the Chateau of Frohsdorf, near Vienna, 

 under the same roof where his royal master had just terminated his 

 honoi'able life of exile, always respected even by his political enemies. 

 As a last {)roof of friendship the Comte de Chambord apiiointed Bar- 

 rande executor to his will ; and in carrying out this last trust, he took 

 a cold that rapidly degenerated into paralytic pneumonia. 



The splendid collection of fossils, and the large and valuable library, 

 were left by will to the Museum of Natural History of Bohemia, and 

 also a sum of ten thousand florins, which has been more than doubled 

 by his family, — a brother and sister, for Barrande was never married. 

 His great work, already far advanced, will be completed under the direc- 

 tion of the Bohemian Museum. The seventh volume, in two parts, on 

 Gasteropoda, will soon be issued by Dr. Waagen ; the eighth volume, 

 in three parts, on Echinoderms and the Colonies, is to appear in two 

 years, and is also under the supervision of, and edited by. Dr. Waagen. 

 Volume IV., the last of the series, (for the publication of the different 

 parts of his work has been quite irregular,) will be edited by Dr. 

 Novak, and is devoted to Bryozoa and Corals. The whole work forms 

 a series of twenty-nine or thirty volumes, or " tomes," as Barrande 

 called them. The edition is of two hundred and fifty copies only ; of 

 which more than fifty have been presented to public libraries. 



The motto on the title-page of each volume reads, '' C'est ce que j'ai 

 vu, — le temoin an juge," and in his " Defense des Colonies " he says : 

 "La science est loin d'etre achevee, elle se fait lentement, en sur- 

 montant Ics difficultes de I'observation et aussi en se degageant penible- 

 ment des entraves que notre intelligence humaine et bornee se crce a 

 elle-meme par ses theories prLCon^ues." 



Noble words from one who has penetrated so far into the secrets of 

 the earth's history, and has unveiled them without prejudice, and with- 

 out fear of disturbing received and prevailing opinions. 



JEAN-BAPTISTE-ANDRfi DUMAS. 



Jeax-Baptiste-Andre Dumas was born at Alais, in the south of 

 France, July 14, 1800. His father belonged to an ancient family, 

 was a man of culture, and held the position of clerk to the munici- 

 pality ot Alais. The son was educated at the college of his native place, 

 and appears to have been destined by his parents for the naval service. 

 But the anarchy and bloodshed which attended the downfall of the 

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