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in America and the Caucasus Honours Mendel^eff and Tolstoi 

 Miss Ellison Quoted Death The Czar's Telegram Menschutkin's 

 Sudden DeathSiberia and its Cruelties Gorky Quoted . . 126 



BUFFON 



Birth His Wealth Tour de St Louis Eemarks of Kousseau and 

 Prince Henry of Prussia on the Tour de St Louis The Sorbonne 

 His Recantation of " Heresy " Mr Gladstone on Evolution Histoire 

 Naturelle fipoques de la Nature Father of the Modern Evolutionist 

 Mirabeau, Rousseau, Diderot, Voltaire, and others praised Buffon's 

 Style His Character Newton's Fluxions Paved the Way for the 

 Doctrine of Descent Action of the Environment Lowell Quoted 

 Buffon and Modern Evolution His Vanity Elected a Member of 

 the Academic des Science Directorship of the Jardin des Plantes 

 Theorie de la Terre Comte de Saporta Quoted Histoire Naturelle 

 des Oiseaux Histoire des Mineraux Death Burial in Pere la Chaise 

 His Grave Desecrated during the Reign of Terror Huxley's 

 Appreciation of Buffon Saint-Hilaire on Linnseus and Buffon . 137 



BERTHELOT 



Birth and Parentage Educated at Lycee Henri IV. Preparateur at the 

 College de France His Thesis and Degree Elected Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Ecole de Pharmacie Professorship at the College 

 de France Founder of Organic Synthesis Poincare" Quoted His 

 Work on Thermo-chemistry Awarded the Jecker Prize The Era 

 of Berthelot Acetylene Methane Value of Chemistry Aerial 

 Navigation Proved the Alcoholic Nature of Glycerine Ghimie 

 Organique fonde'e sur la Synthese Essai de Mechanique Ohimique 

 fonde'e sur la Thermo-chimie Berthelot's Laws Berthelot's Agri- 

 cultural Station and Investigations His Books Secretaryship of 

 the Academic des Sciences Elected a Member of the Academic 

 Fran9aise The Institut de France President of the Scientific 

 Committee of National Defence during the Siege of Paris Sur la 

 force des Matieres Explosives His Various Writings A Member of 

 the Cabinets of Goblet and Bourgeois Friend of England Russia's 

 Jealousy The Boer War, the German Emperor and Berthelot 

 Berthelot's Memory Madame Berthelot Berthelot's Kindness to 

 Scientific Men Honours His Scientific Jubilee The Sorbonne 

 His Historical Books The Socie"te Alchimique de France The 

 Finale Berthelot and His Wife Die Together Both Buried in the 

 Pantheon Berthelot and the Bodies of Voltaire and Rousseau 146 



