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men and events no\v becoming obscure and misty in the hazy 

 . which yet is so little distant from us : " Since I am here 

 I have been so busied with the duties of juror (for I was 

 appointed member of the International Jury) that I have 

 really been a slave. You may judge when I tell you that, 

 although the Palace of Fine Arts is but a few rods from my 

 lodging, I have only been there once, and then on duty and 

 :ii hour only, and I have been once to the Louvre lor two 

 hours. 1 am tired of it ; I shall leave in three or four days 

 lor the Khine. I have need of this to rest me and prepare 

 me for further labors of the Jury in October, when the 

 recompenses will all be fixed for the different exposants. I 

 have had the objects of the first-class minerals, metallurgical 

 esses and all that concerns raw materials of this class. A 

 amount of material is collected from France, Prussia, 

 in. etc., but Kngland semis very little, and the 

 United States almost nothing. The associations of the Jury 

 have been very valuable for me; our President is Elie de 

 Beaumont, who is justly regarded as the patriarch of geology 

 ranee; besides we have Dufre*noy, Gallon and de Chan- 

 courtors of tin; Imperial School of Mines; Leplay, who is at 

 time Com missionary-General of the Exposition, and 

 members of more or less distinetion. Mv inter- 

 . ith them has been very agreeable. M.de Beaumont 

 'een particularly kind in his marks of attention toward 

 :iid his high position in the scientific world and as Sena- 

 Made his patron , useful t<> me, I>um;is lias 

 also interested himself lor me, has brought m- the 

 eg, and presented me the other day to 

 e Napole-.n in ;i ni-i.-t public and llatteiing manner. 

 Prince received me with great kindness. The presenta- 

 tion was the more tlaUeriirj ;1S it was unsolicited. ;uid a> M. 

 Dumas said things about m. 'ic merit that I will not 



house, ami met among other 



iits, Mess. Balard and Wurt/.. M. Du , uch 



pleased with 'ics in the which 1 



ed him, and begged him give them to the 



