220 Miscellanies. 
who has before circumnavigated the world in L’Uranie; in zoology, M. 
Eydoux, naval surgeon of the first class, who sailed round the world in 
L’Favourite ; in geology, M. Chevalier Enseigne de Vaisseau ; in astron- 
omy, M. Chevalier Fouchard ; in hydrography and observations on terres- 
trial magnetism, in connection with the other officers of the ship, M. Dar- 
ondeau. M. Lauvergne, the same artist who has twice before been around 
the world in the Astrolabe and the Favourite, was draftsman to the ex- 
pedition. What is most singular, is the fact, that not one person died 
out of the whole crew and numerous passengers ; nor did any serious ill- 
ness appear, except a few cases of scurvy, towards the close of the voy- 
This extraordinary exemption is to be attributed to the watchful 
care of the captain, in airing the vessel, and enforcing exact cleanliness 
among his men, and making them suit their dress to the climate they were 
in, and to the diurnal variations of the temperature. No accident occur- 
red to the vessel herself. 
OBITUARY.—THE HON. NATHANIEL BOWDITCH. 
The death of this excellent and illustrious esa “a left a void in the American 
scientific world, which it will be very difficult t 
His r a was not merely Amescan—it Bae i likchid belonged to his 
fellow-men of every enlightened and christi 
We heard of his extreme and =e ns i almost immediately after, of 
his death, with acute pain, and with a of hopeless bereavement—hopeless 
as regards the prospect of looking upon “hie like again. 
‘The following able obituary from the pen of an eminent scholar, and one inti- 
mately acquainted with Dr. Bowditch and his history, appeared in the Boston Daily 
ertiser and Patriot of March 17, 1838, a and we, without hesitation, adopt it, as 
more ample biography will be written by the same able hand, and will appear in 
the Memoirs of the American Academy of Boston. While waiting for this full 
it of one of the most distinguished men of his age, we will venture only to 
add, that from opportunities which we were so fortunate as to enjoy, of familiar 
interviews with Dr. Bowditch, in the bosom of his amiable and happy family, we 
were not less delighted with the warm and generous expression of his private affee- 
tions, and the frank assuring impress of his manly manners, than we had been, 
before knowing him, with the splendor of his public reputation. Of the latter, oo 
appeared to be almost the only person who was unconscious; and if he was great 
to the world of mathematicians and astronomers, he was delightful in ve hours and 
scenes of the domestic and ts circle *=-Ep. 
It gives us pain to announce the decease of our distinguished townsman, Dr- 
a which took pli yesterday, at 1 o'clock, after an illness of several 
eeks. 
"The death of this eminent man will be felt in America as a national loss. His 
name was identified with the science of his native country; and our national char- 
* The President and faculty of Yale College, where Dr. Bowditch’s character was 
much honored, on on hearing of his death, transmitted to his children, resolutions ex- 
pressive of their high veneration for hb deceased of ther deep sense of the lo 
to the nation and the world, and of their sympathy with his bereaved family 
