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self with the natural history of my province, in spite of repulse 
and ridicule.” The same spirit involved him in other struggles 
to the end of his life; and, indeed, we may almost say, beyond 
it. He took a prominent part in the political controversies of his 
day ; and few works on such subjects, which appeared in France 
in modern times, produced a greater fermentation than his “ Meé- 
moire a consulter” on the subject of the Jesuits. In this work he 
maintained that the position of the Jesuits in France was danger- 
ous and illegal; and he must be considered as the originator of 
that movement in consequence of which their body was, a few 
years later, suppressed by the government. 'The expression of 
his opinions respecting the conduct and influence of the clergy of 
his country was condemned by the ecclesiastical authorities, and 
was deemed by them of a nature to exclude him from that recog- 
nition of his being a son of the Catholic Church, which is implied 
by the performance of the funeral rite according to its ordinances. 
This, however, did not prevent the inhabitants of the neighbor- 
hood and the military stationed at Clermont from showing the re- 
gard which his intercourse with them had inspired, by attending 
his sepulture in great numbers. He was buried in a spot pre- 
viously selected by himself, in the crater of the extinct volcano 
in which his abode was, in the middle of the scenes which he 
had from his earliest years loved and studied, and taught others 
to feel a deep interest in. He died at the age of 83, on his way 
to Paris in order to take his seat in the Chamber of Peers, of which 
a member.* : 
Anselme-Gaétan Desmarest, honorary member of the Royal 
Academy of Medicine, and Professor of Zoology at the Royal 
Veterinary College of Alfort, was the son of Nicolas Desmarest, 
who has just been mentioned as the predecessor of Montlosier in 
his theory of the volcanic origin of Auvergne. 'The son also em- 
ployed himself upon the same district; and published an enlarged 
ee 
* Besides his “ Essay on the Extinct Volcanos of Auvergne,’ M. de Montlosier 
was the author of the following works: ‘Mémoire a consulter sur un Systeme 
Religieux et Politique tendant 4 renverser la Religion, la Société et le Trone’ 
(1826.)  “ Dénonciation aux Cours Royales rélativement au Systéme Religie et 
Politique signalé dans le Mémoire A consulter,” (1826.) “ Mémoires de M- le 
Comte de Montlosier sur la Révolution Francaise, le Consulat, |’Empire, et Jes 
principaux Evyénements qui ont suivis 1755-1830.” Of this work two volumes 
have appeared, which bring the narrative down to the author’s quitting the Na- 
tional Assembly in 1790. 
