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soil was gradually covered witli woods and harvests. The aspect of the 

 Landes will be transformed from the day when the methods of our 

 lamented colleague shall be applied to the whole of that region, and 

 the name of Landes will subsist only as a vestige of the past, but the 

 memory of Chambrelent shall live through the ages in the hearts of the 

 people, for whom he shall have proved one of their greatest benefactors. 



No less severe for us was the loss of Edouard Fremy, who died at 

 the age of 80, at the Museum, in the glorious scientific establishment 

 the management of which had taken up a portion of his life and whose 

 increased attractions were so largely due to his efibrts. His uncommon 

 faculty of investigation had placed him among the masters of chemis- 

 try, with every branch of which he became conversant. His numerous 

 discoveries, especially in regard to industrial ai)plications of chemistry, 

 have bestowed upon him a lasting claim to the gratitude of the scien- 

 tific world. Countless is the number of distinguished pupils who were 

 formed under his teaching and of the investigators who frequented his 

 laboratory to advantage in the forty years during which he occupied a 

 foremost rank in French science. 



Our colleague was denied the satisfaction of bringing to an end the 

 publication of the " Encyclopedic Chimique," a monumental work, 

 which he undertook in common with several of our members. The 

 overwhelming fatigues of a long life wholly devoted to work had in 

 recent years weakened the springs of his activity and cast a sort of 

 shadow over his once bright mind. But his image still stands before 

 our eyes as that of a man of profound observation, a sharp and clear 

 intellect, and a high character, which won him universal regard. 



A month later we followed to his last resting place an honorary 

 academician especially lamented by his colleagues. General Fave, a 

 highly distinguished officer, who, while he was nobly attending to his 

 duties as a soldier, gave constant and fruitful attention to the arts of 

 war. He wrote many papers on history and strategy, and achieved 

 reputation by his numerous inventions, highly valuable for the national 

 defense. Ko one could come in contact with General Fave without 

 being impressed with the high cultivation of his mind, which, with his 

 affable disposition and his exquisite courtesy, gave him a genuine fas- 

 cination. 



A i^hysician has also gone from our midst. We shall cherish the 

 memory of Brown- Sequard as one of the most original and interesting- 

 characters of our age, a deep thinker and bold investigator. That illus- 

 strious physiologist had won fame by works of the highest order long 

 before his name became so universally known through the last and most 

 curious of his efforts. His capacity for production was extraordinary. 

 Always bent on the pursuit of new truths, he was obliged at times to 

 defer the final demonstration of his general views, which thus appeared 

 in the light of actual divination. 



He was lavish of his energies, and even of his life, when it was a ques- 



