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Clairgaut, the Beurre Hardj, the Beurre de Montigeron, the 

 Golden Beurre de Bilboa, the Henkel, the Paradise d'Aiitomne, 

 the St. Michael Archangel, the Duchesse d'Orleansand the Winter 

 Nelis have proved good. 



On motion of Mr, Pardee, a pear exhibited by Mr. Randall for 

 a name, and which was pronounced a superior winter pear, was 

 named the Randall pear. 



duane's seed sower. 



Mr. Carpenter stated that Mr. Duane desired to enter for a 

 premium his Seed Sower and Broadcast Sowing Machine, and 

 moved the appointment of a committee to examine it. 



The motion was agreed to, and Prof. Mapes, R. L. Pell and 

 John G. Bergen were appointed as said committee. 



ISIDORE GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE. 



Dr. David P. Hoi ton said : The announcement of the death of 

 Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire, an honored correspondent of the 

 American Institute, calls us to pause in our ordinary course, to 

 pay a tribute of respect to his memory ; to pass in review some of 

 the labors of the distinguished naturalist, and to consider some 

 of the valuable deductions and analogical inductions of his phi- 

 losophic mind, especially those forming the basis of the organiza- 

 tion and practical working of one of the most important societies 

 of France — the Society of Acclimation — whose president he was 

 from its foundation, 10th February, 1854, to his decease, Paris, 

 October llth, 18G1. 



The setting forth of these labors might have been entrusted to 

 one of greater erudition and scientific appreciation ; but a solemn 

 duty rests upon your speaker — that which a pupil bears to a 

 respected teacher. 



As in the schools of Medicine (passing from modern times to 

 remote antiquity,) Ave associate Bichat Avith Hippocrates; so in 

 Natural History Ave associate Geoffroy St. Hilaire Avith Aristotle. 



To give even a general view of the Avorks of Isidore Geoffroy St. 

 Hilaire it is peculiarly necessary to speak of his father, Etienne — a 

 father Avhose developments in Natural History have placed him as a 

 fixed star in the galaxy of brilliant lights of the first half of the 

 nineteenth century; a father Avhose " Philosophie Anatomique" 

 was the polar star in the reasoning and observation of the son in 

 his logical deductions and generalizations, giving in fact a ncAV 



