alist as time went on, and at the coronation of Charles X. he officiated 

 as President of the Council. He received from that monarch the deco- 

 ration of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, and to his sole super- 

 intendence were left the whole of the religious communities of France, 

 which were unconnected with the prevailing faith. The calamities which 

 multiplied so unhappily in his domestic life, were increased to a degree 

 almost beyond endurance, in 1827, by the death of the only relic of the 

 general wreck of his children, in the continuance of whose society he had 

 any reason to confide. His daughter Clementine had attained her twenty- 

 second year, and had then been bound to her parents by bonds of the 

 dearest connection. But she fell like a flower in her prime, and left her 

 parents to seek that consolation in their aflliction Avhich can only be ob- 

 tained from Heaven. Cuvier manifested but too tenderly, for along time 

 afterwards, the effect of his privations. 



In 1830, Cuvier resumed the office of Lecturer at the College of 

 France, and delivered a series of discourses on the progress of science in 

 all ages, which shewed the most extraordinary erudition. In 1832, he 

 was elevated to the rank of a Peer of France, and received the appoint- 

 ment of President of the Council. 



We now approach the only repugnant portion of our task — the account 

 of Cuvier's death. We, of course, have no other materials to refer to 

 than those furnished by the immediate friends of the deceased, and 

 amongst these, the report of M. Rousseau, the assistant of the Baron at 

 the Garden of Plants, and who was in close attendance upon him during 

 the whole of his last illness, appears to be that which deserves the 

 greatest confidence. It appears from the statement of this gentleman, 

 that, " on Monday the 7th of May, 1832, M. Cuvier had slight diarrhoea, 

 with disturbance of the bowels, for which he took a lavement, with some 

 drops of laudanum in it. On Tuesday he felt quite well, and gave his 

 accustomed lecture at the College of France with even more than his 

 usual energy; so much so, indeed, that he was covered with perspiration 

 at its conclusion. The day was rather cold, and M. Cuvier walked home, 

 contrary to his ordinary custom. He dined as vvell as usual, and in the 

 evening attended a soiree of the Professors at the Museum, where he 

 talked a good deal. It was on the next morning, Wednesday, that he 

 complained of the stiffness and difficulty of moving his right upper ex- 

 tremity; yet he attended the Council of State, and on his return had an 

 appetite for dinner; but though he could eat his soup well enough, he 

 was surprised to find that it was almost impossible for him to swallow any 

 thing more solid. That night leeches were applied to the anus. On 

 Thursday the right arm was perfectly paralyzed; deglutition was more 

 difficult than ever; but he could walk about very well. The pulse was 



