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not be developed but at the time when he settled at Montauban. 

 Intrusted with the education of the son of M. Delmas, a mer- 

 chant of that town, he resolved to complete his own. He gave 

 himself to the sciences with ardour, and succeeded in making 

 friends, or rather true brothers, of his pupils, insomuch, that, 

 having lived with them 40 years, he died in their arms. He was 

 Professor of Philosophy to the Protestant Theological Faculty of 

 Montauban, member of several learned societies, and known by 

 his numerous memoirs in Natural Philosophy and Natural His- 

 tory, on the Rot in Corn, on Dew, Sfc. I have neither time nor 

 opportunity to detail all his works, and still less to describe his 

 amiable character, and talk of his virtues. These valuable de- 

 tails must be reserved to another time ; I shall here only say 

 that M, Ben. Prevost, happy in the family that had received him, 

 and cherished by those who had given him an asylum, sought not 

 to form new connexions. Tie has left his friends in sorrow, but 

 I feel happy in being the first to pay to his memory this slight 



tribute of affection and grief. 



P. Prevost. 



1 3. Death ofM. Faujas de Saint Fond. — Science has lately lost 

 M. Faujas de Saint Fond, a distinguished mineralogist and 

 geologist. He was born at Montelimart in 1750, and died last 

 July (1819,) at Soriel, near Valence. He was Professor of Geo- 

 logy to the Museum of Natural History, from the time of its esta- 

 blishment; he has enriched its collections by a vast number 

 of curious objects, the results of his researches and travels ; 

 and France owes to him the discovery of one of its richest 

 iron mines M. Faujas has published many works on minera- 

 logy and geology, as well as numerous memoirs in the Annates 

 du, Museum d' Histoire Natiirelle. He has left a collection of 

 minerals, shells, and alluvial fossils, among which are many 

 extremely rare specimens, and of which the selection announces 

 a professor who desired to rest upon facts to the utmost possible. 



