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brother, the companion of his travels through Arabia ; arrd 

 his pupil Hyacinth Recciveur, who difplayed all that zeal 

 and all thofe good qualitiesr which could be wiihod. This 

 lois, a very great one to aftronomy, threw Beauchamp into' 

 defpair, and difgnfted him with a voyage to Arabia; but ther 

 minifter fent him to join Bonaparte and the men of letters 

 aflemblcd in Eg)pt, where he will certainly contribute to 

 the fucccfs t)f that important expedition, in regard to tbr 

 geographical and aftronomical parts. 



M. Reccard, who had publiihcd various obfer\-ations, died 

 at Konigfberg on the 3d of October. 



We have loft lately alfo John Francis Calle. He wasr 

 born on the 25th of 06tobGr 1744, at Vcrfailles, where he 

 received a good education, and acquired an early tafte for the 

 mathematics. In 1768 he came to Paris, where he had an 

 opportunity of being more thoroughly inftru6led. In 1774 

 he formed fomc diftinguifhcd pupils for the fchool of engi- 

 neers, where the examinations were flrict, and admiflion 

 difficult to be obtained. In 1779 he gained the prize pro- 

 pofed by the Society of Arts at Geneva, for efcapements. 

 In 1783 he completed his edition of Gardiner's Tables of 

 Logarithms, which were exceedingly convenient, of great 

 utility, and very correft ; and which pofiTefTed advantages 

 above all the others. In 1788 he was appointed profeflbr of 

 hydrography at Vannes, afterwards at Dunkirk ; and in 1792- 

 he returned to Paris, and was for a few years profeflbr Jts 

 ingenicurs geographes at the depot of war. This place hav- 

 ing been fupprefled, he continued to teach in Paris, where 

 he was alwavs confidered as one of the beft mathematical' 

 mafters to whom pupils could apply. 



In 1795 he publiflied the new llereotype edition of the 

 Tables of Logarithms, confiderably enlarged with logarithmic 

 tables, of the fines, according to the new decimal divifion of 

 the circle. Thcfe are the firll which ever appeared. Towards 

 the end of 1797 he. prefented to the National Inftitute the 



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