MEMOIR 



M. FRANCOIS PERON. 



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Memoir of M. Peron, Correspondent de T Institute 

 Membre de la Societe de Medicine, fyc. $c. 



IN the following Memoir, we invite attention to a 

 l..rief sketch of the eventful life of the illustrious 

 Peron, whose course was alike short and brilliant. 

 In early life, disabled from further service in that 

 bloody field, misnamed the field of glory, for which 

 by nature he was peculiarly fitted, but where he 

 witnessed much that almost broke his heart, he be- 

 took himself to the study of Natural History, and, 

 after a period of ardent application, he spent se- 

 veral most busy years in the dreary regions of the 

 Antarctic Seas there working as Naturalist had 

 never worked before. He then returned to Paris, 

 loaded with the spoils of his successful industry 



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