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LAVOISIER 



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Birth and Parentage Education at College Mazarin An Avocat 

 Nouvelle Chimie Elected a Member of the Academie des Sciences 

 Introduction of the Balance in Chemical Eesearch Conservation 

 of Matter On Calcination Voltaire's Scientific Work Explains 

 Combustion Phlogistic Theory Overthrown Definition of an 

 Element Fermier General Death Sentence Prison His Letter 

 to Augez de Villers Rejection of his Petition Marseillaise and 

 (7a Ira Coffinhal His Death Robespierre's and Lamartine's 

 Descriptions of Coffinhal Carlyle on Lavoisier's Death Place de 

 la Concorde Statue of Lavoisier ..... 1 



CUVIER 



Birth and Parentage Education Private Tutor to the Family of the 

 Comte d'Hericy French Wars Ossemens Fossiles The Abbe 

 Tessier Professorship at the Ecole Centrale Classification of the 

 Animal Kingdom Discovery of Red Blood in Leeches Professor- 

 ships at the College de France and the Jardin des Plantes 

 Memoirs on Palaeontology Lepons d'Anatomie Comparee Napoleon 

 establishes Lycees Secretaryship of the Academie des Sciences 

 His Honours Regne A nimal Cuvier made an " Immortal " and 

 a Baron His Library Histoire Naturelle des Poissons La Petite 

 Revolution His Death His Grave in the Cimetiere du Pere la 

 Chaise Character Correlation of Growth Tertiary Mammals of 

 France His Zoological Researches Fossil Forms . . .18 



CAVENDISH 



Birth and Parentage Studies at Cambridge Character and Habits 

 Cavendish House, Clapham Weighs the Earth Law of Inverse 

 Squares Electrical Resistance of Water Most Eccentric Character 



