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and improved edition of his father’s map of Auvergne ;—a work 
which is still spoken of with admiration, for its fidelity and skillful 
construction, by all who explore that country. But the labors of 
the younger Desmarest were principaily bestowed upon the other 
parts of natural history. We possess in our Library, extracted 
from various journals, and presented us by the author, his ‘“‘ Notes 
on the impression of marine bodies in the strata of Montmartre,” 
published in 1809; his “Memoir on the Gyrogonite,” published 
in 1810; to which he added, 1812, the recognition of the analogy 
of this fossil with the fruit of the Chara, pointed out by his 
brother-in-law M. Léman; his review of a work by M. Daudebard 
é Ferussac, on the Fossils of Freshwater Formations, in 1813; 
his memoir on 'T'wo Genera of Fossil Chambered Shells, in 1817 ; 
and his “ Natural History of Proper Fossil-Crustaceans,” published 
in 1822 along with M. Brongniart’s “ Natural History of Fossil 
Trilobites.” In the Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle,” the arti- 
cle Malacostracés, which contains a complete account and classi- 
fication of Crustaceans, is by M. Desmarest, with others on the 
“ame subject. In this work all the articles on Crustaceans had 
orginally been assigned to Dr. Leach; but when the lamented 
illness of that distinguished naturalist prevented his finishing this 
task, it was committed to Desmarest, who carefully studied the 
labors of his predecessor ; and, with most laudable industry and 
self-denial, made it his business to follow his method as closely 
4S possible. He also published a separate work on Crustaceans 
In 1825, ; 
_ Count Kaspar Sternberg was one of ‘those persons, so valuable 
in every country, who employ the advantages of wealth and rank 
in the cultivation and encouragement of science. He belonged 
0. @ younger branch of one of the best and oldest families in Bo- 
emia; and was closely connected with the persons of most eleva- 
ted station in that country. He was born the 6th of January, 
1761, and received a distinguished education at Prague ; not only, 
*S Was then common among the Bohemian nobility, through pri- 
Yate tutors, but by following the public course of the university. 
© Was created Canon of the Chapter of the metropolitan church 
% Ratisbon, which, obliging him to receive the lower degree of 
holy orders, bound him to celibacy. At Ratisbon, then a consid- 
“table Place, and the seat of the Diet of the German empire, he 
formed friendships with several eminent persons, and especially 
