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respect from Lyell, Murchison, and other distin- 

 guished men of science, and was formally introduced 

 to the body, which he briefly addressed. In Paris, 

 like attentions were paid him by Adolphe Brongniart, 

 Milne Edwards, Elie de Beaumont, and other per- 

 sons of distinction. He was escorted to a meeting 

 of the French Academy by Cordier, the sole survivor 

 of the corps of savans who attended Napoleon to 

 Egypt. Journeying southward, he passed through 

 Lyons and Marseilles to Geneva, and thence into 

 Italy, descending to Rome and Naples, and making 

 a brief visit to Sicily. At Naples, he was courteously 

 received by Professor Melloni. He explored the ruins 

 of Herculaneum, and evinced his bodily vigor by 

 climbing the sides of Vesuvius and exploring Etna, 

 and by the ascent of Mount Bolca, in an excursion 

 from Venice. After seeing the principal cities in the 

 North of Italy, he returned to Geneva. Here, as 

 everywhere, civilities were shown him by scientific 

 men of the highest position, by Pictet and Favre, 

 by Marigniac, and by De la Rive who recollected 

 and mentioned Professor Silliman's early experiments 

 in galvanism. Mount Blanc and the glaciers, he vis- 

 ited with the double interest that belongs to a lover 

 of nature and a student of science. In Switzerland, 

 he met persons of his own name, descendants, it is 

 probable, of common progenitors. In Germany, his 

 name was well known to persons eminent in science, 

 with whom he was now brought into pleasant inter- 

 course, such as Liebig in Giessen, Broun and 

 Leonhard in Heidelberg ; and in Berlin, those illustri- 

 ous men, the brothers Rose, Mitscherlich, Ehren- 

 berg, Ritter, and Humboldt. Returning to England, 



