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Blanpain, born in 1779, who faw firft at Marfeilles the 

 eomet of 1797, announces, at the age of nineteen, as much 

 zeal as knowledge. He is diflinguifhed by his great learn- 

 ing and good moral qualities. Being obliged to apply to 

 commerce, he is not yet able to indulge his tafte for aftro- 

 Bomy ; but he calculates obfervations, and even makes 

 fome himfelf. 



Young Bcrnier, of Montauban, applies alfo to the fame 

 fcience with fuccefs. I wifhed to get him fent out with 

 General Bonaparte ; but my application was too late. 



C. Cotilon, though employed in the adminillration of 

 domains, has come to lodge in the College dc France, in order 

 to labour alouff with us. His intellifrence and zeal we often 

 find ufeful. 



On the nth of November C. Caffini V. aged fixtecn, 

 who has come to refide in the obfcrvatory to purfue the 

 traces of his auccftors, and who difplays all the zeal which 

 ought to be infpircd by fuch an illuftrious name, made his 

 firft obfervation in the obfcrvatory of the College de Francey 

 under the direclion of C. Lefran'pais. He w^ill fupply the 

 place of Maraldi IV. who has left us. 



After having fpoken of our acquifitions, I muft now fpeak 

 of our lodes. In the hiftory of allronomy fur the Year V. 

 I announced the death of Toaldo, which happened at Padua 

 on the iSlh of November. As I publiflied a particular 

 cloge of that ufoftd aftronomer in the Magazin Encjrclope- 

 diquc*, I dial' here add nothing on the fubjcft, except that 

 his place is fupplied i]i the obfcrvatory of Padua by his 

 nephew, M. Chiminello, who was a long time his affiftant. 



Bertrand-Auguftin Carrouge, an aftronomer of _ great 

 merit, died on the 29th of March. He was born at Dol on 

 the 8th of Oftober 1741. He calculated a thoufand ftars 

 for the Celeftial Globe publiflied by C, Lamarche, fucccfTor 

 to Fortin ; and he made a great many calculations for the 



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