6 Baron Cuvier on the state (>/' Natural History. 



habitants of Manilla against the strangers whom they supposed 

 to have introduced among them the cholera morbus. Duvaucel, 

 dangerously wounded by the ferocious beasts on the banks of 

 the Ganges, has long languished on a bed of pain. 



This devotion to science has not been confined to the young 

 alone. Noel de Moriniere, whose age and i'ormer labours gave 

 him so just a title to repose, did not hesitate to seize the oppor- 

 tunity of visiting Norway and Lapland. Tlie cold of the North 

 Cape brought on inflammation of his brain, of which he died 

 at Drontheim. 



Foreign nations also have had their martyrs to natural his- 

 tory. The adventurer Badia, murdered on the road to Mecca ; 

 the young and interesting Ritchie, perishing in despair at Fez- 

 zan ; Kuhl falling a victim to the contagious climate of Ba- 

 tavia, did not cool the ardour of their successors, who quickly 

 filled lip their places. Very recently the intrepid Bowdich, 

 guided only by hope, went forth to penetrate anew into the in- 

 terior of Africa, respecting which he has given sucii interesting 

 accounts. He was accompanied by his young wife, a lady of 

 the greatest accomplishments and talents, who, hke him, had, 

 by long study, prepared herself for this new enterprise. Every 

 thing seemed to promise the most happy results. Scarcely had 

 he arrived at the Gambia, when death put an end to his projects, 

 and to the expectation of the friends of science. But renown is 

 nowhere to be purchased but by danger or suffering. Science, 

 like victory, subjects to hard conditions those whom she enrols 

 among her followers. 



Happily there are also successes which console and en- 

 courage, of which several marine expeditions are shining exam- 

 ples. There is no longer a christian nation which docs not send 

 out such expeditions, and which does not consider it honourable 

 to contribute in this manner to the progress of natural history 

 and geography. Still more, the zeal of private individuals no 

 longer scruples to engage in similar vmdertakings. After the 

 Russian Admiral Krusentcrn''s voyage round the world, whicli 

 had already enriched zoology and geography, we have seen 

 Count Romanzof sending out Captain Kotzebue at his own ex- 

 pense, and this expedition has been not less fortunate than the 



