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was no sulphurous principle in the water of Saxon, and establishing irrefutably, 

 by a series of numerous quantitative analyses, that the constant existence of 

 iodine therein was an illusion, and its intermission a reality. 



From the very titles of the memoirs published by Morin it may be seen that 

 his researches were chiefly directed towards a practical end, and that the numer- 

 ous analyses which he conducted were undertaken with a view to application 

 rather than to theory. But that in which we recognize the chemist, conversant 

 with the entire progress and with every demand of the science, is the exactness 

 and care with which all these analytical researches were made. It was this 

 tendency towards the application of science to the arts which impelled Morin 

 to devote himself more and more to the class of industry, that section of the 

 Society of Arts in which he found the field of activity that best suited him. 

 Although his health had been seriously affected for more than two years, 

 his zeal and activity were not for a moment relaxed, and it was (mly since the 

 month of September last that the progress of the malady obliged him to renounce 

 his occupations. He died 1st of December, 1S64, after many months of suffering, 

 bearing with him the regrets of his colleagues and of all who had known and 

 could appreciate the worth of the man and the savant. 



I shall recall, lastly, the different nominations which have been made in the 

 course of the year : M. Arthur Achard has been named as member in ordinary ; 

 M. Berthelot, professor of the normal school, and General Morin, director of the 

 conservatory of arts and trades at Paris, have been elected honorary members ; 

 and Dr. Ed. Dufresne, associate at large. In the elections which have taken place 

 for the renewal of the bureau, at the commencement of the yeai", you have called 

 to the presidency Dr. Gosse; whence it will result that, by a happy coincidence, 

 the same year which is destined to the celebration at Geneva of the fiftieth 

 anniversary of the Helvetic Society of Natural Sciences, will be marked in our 

 own association by the presidency of the sou of that savant to whom Switzerland 

 is indebted for an institution whose utility is every year more highly appreciated. 



