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notti, and Matteucci, have rendered interefting for a century 

 pad. 



Clraligni died lately at Madrid ; he had long made ob- 

 fcrvations and calculations, by which he has been known 

 with advantage as an aftronomer. 



M. Chevalier has died at Prague : he made ufeful obferva- 

 tions at Lifbon in 1759, '^"'^ ^^ Bruflels. 



On the 8lh of Oftober, Gabriel de Bory died at Paris, 

 aged 81 : he undertook a journey to Spain in 1751, and in 

 1758 went to Portugal and Madeira to determine their por- 

 tion. His obfervations are in the Memoires of 1768, p. 270, 

 and in thofe of 1773, part ii. In the Memoires of T770 

 he gave a defcription of a portable obfervatory, and in the 

 third volume of the Savi.m Etrarigers an obfervation of the 

 tranfit of Mercury in 1753. ^" ^75^ ^^ publifhed a defcrip- 

 tion of a marine o&ant : he diffufed a tafte for obfervations 

 through the royal navy : being chef d'efcadre and governor 

 of the windward iflands, he had means of contributing to 

 excite emulation, and he always employed them. In 1765 

 he was therefore elected a fee aflbciate of the Academy of 

 ^Sciences, and in 1798 memI)ei'of the Inftitute. 



The Academy and Inllitute have always been fenfible how 

 much need we have of enliohtened fellow-labourers to im- 

 prove our knowledge of navisialion, the moft difficult of all 

 arts, and the moft important of all fcienccs for the profperity 

 and greatnefs of ftates. 



But the greateft lofs fuftained by aftronomy is that of Jo- 

 feph Beauchamp. He was born at Vezoul on the 29th of 

 June 1752. His obfervations at Bagdad in Perfia., and on 

 the Black fea, were as laborious to him as they were im- 

 portant to us. Me fet out in 1795 as French conful for 

 Mafcate in Arabia; and he wroic to me on his departure 

 as follows : " Remember my attachment to you and to aftro- 

 nomy." He left indeed, with fome regret, a country and 

 family who were dear to him ; he is certainly one or the 

 martyrs to aftronomy. He fet out for Conflanlinople on the 

 a5th of September; we expelled him with tlie greatclt im- 

 patience, but he had fcarcely arrived in Provence when he 

 fell a ptcy to a malady of which he had not been properly 

 cured. He died at Nice on the 191!) of November 1801. 

 Eight days before his death the fcifion of aftronomy hiid prc- 

 fented him to the vacant place in the Inftitute. I piil>li(licd 

 a notice of his labours in the Monilcur of Dec. 75, 1801. 



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