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ARTICLE X. 
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, AND NOTICES OF SUBJECTS 
CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE. 
I. Abbé Haiiy. 
The following account of the acciJent which occasioned the death 
of this eminent philosopher, has been transmitted by a medical friend 
at Paris to the Editor, accompanied with a copy of Baron Cuvier’s 
discourse at his funeral, the original, of which our readers will prefer to 
any translation :—- 
On the afternoon of the 14th of May, while alone in his cabinet, the 
Abbé Haiiy fell down, I rather imagine in consequence of a slip, for 
I cannot find that he suffered any loss of sensibility, nor did he subse- 
quently exhibit any symptom of cerebral affection, which could war- 
rant the idea of a fit. 
After some little time, he managed to call his attendants to his assist- 
ance. Some days elapsed before the exact nature of the injury which 
he had received was ascertained, the pain which he experienced from 
it, added to that which he before acutely suffered from a nephritic 
complaint, rendering a very minute examination difficult. After some 
time, however, a fracture of the neck of the os, femoris was discovered. 
Fortunately for the Abbé, he was attended by Almand, surgeon to the 
Hospice Salpetriere ; and as this gentleman does not, like many of his 
countrymen, entertain vain hopes of reunion in fractures of this kind, 
the good old man was spared the fatigue of a useless and distressing 
apparatus. 
Notwithstanding the diminution in his strength and appetite, the 
Abbé continued to cherish the prospect of recovery till almost the last; 
aad in conversation with the few scientific friends who were permitted 
to see him, he exhibited full proof of the unabated vigour ef his recol- 
lection and reasoning powers. A few days before his death, which 
occurred about nine o'clock on the morning of the Ist of June, it was 
discovered that a collection of matter had formed, after the evacuation 
of which, his decline became more rapid than it had previously been. 
The extreme heat of the weather, probably had some effect in accele- 
rating it. 
In consequence of the Abbé Haiiy’s being Canon of Notre Dame, 
custom required a considerable service to be celebrated in the cathe- 
dral on the occasion of his funeral, but the circumstance of its happen- 
ing on the day on which that building was occupied by the Chamber of 
Deputies, in the performance of the usual ceremony on the election of 
new members, prevented this service from being performed there, and 
a dispensation was obtained to go through it in the Abbe’s parish 
church. My engagements prevented me from being present on this 
occasion, but the ceremony must have been one of considerable length, 
for though the corpse left the garden between 10 and 11, it did not: 
reach Pére la Chaise till nearly three o’clock. 
Here too I was nearly prevented from attending, for it happened 
that on that very day, the students of Law and Medicine were desirous 
