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town in 1833. With Daguerre, he was one of the 

 inventors of photography. 



NISARD, JEAN MARIE NAPOLEON DESIRE, French 

 man of letters, born at Chatillon-sur-Seine in 

 1806, died at San Remo in 1883. He was direc- 

 tor of the Ecole Normale Superieure and member 

 of the Academic Franchise. 



PARACELSUS (his real name being Philippus 

 Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohen- 

 heim), a celebrated Swiss physician and alchem- 

 ist, born at Einsiedeln, in the canton of Schwyz, 

 December llth, 1493, died at Salzburg September 

 24th, 1541. He may be regarded as the founder 

 of the modern doctrine of specifics. 



POUCHET, FELIX ARCHIMEDE, French naturalist, 

 born at Rouen in 1800, died in that same city in 

 1872. He was celebrated for his controversies 

 with Pasteur on the subject of spontaneous gen- 

 eration. 



QUATREFAGES, JEAN Louis ARMAND DE BREAU 

 DE, French naturalist and anthropologist, born at 

 Berthezene, Gard, in 1810, died at Paris in 1892. 

 He defended the theory of the unity of the ori- 

 gin of man. 



REGNAULT, HENRI VICTOR, French physicist and 

 chemist, born at Aix-la-Chapelle July llth, 1810, 

 died at Paris January 19th, 1878. 



