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15. Hampune. Surgery. —A physician of this town, has 
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16. Geneva. Mare- Auguste Picrer.—Our republic and 
the phy ea: and i be Picasa have just sustained an im- 
mense loss’ in rofessor Picret, who. died on 
the night of April (acs fon months has scarcely elapsed 
since death deprived us of his younger brother, the Coun- 
sellor of State, ©, Pictet de Rochemont, one of our 
most distinguished magistrates ; and again the tomb is open 
to deprive us, after an illness of three weeks, of a man whose 
vast knowledge, and the generous and useful employment 
which he made of it, rendered him dear to al his #5 inaesit: 
The loss of this distinguished savant, so impressiv ely. felt 
in Switzerland, will be equally so in those countries in which 
he supported a scientific bE and especially. in 
