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Scotland, 1802; died at St. Andrews, 1871. 

 Scotch publisher and writer. Set up as a book- 

 seller in Edinburgh, 1818, and in 1832 started 

 the famous publishing house of W. & R. Cham- 

 bers, with his brother. Wrote "Vestiges of the 

 Natural History of Creation" (1844), which pre- 

 pared the way for the acceptance of Darwin's 

 theories. 



Champollion, Jean Francois, i, 27, iv, 290. 

 Born at Figeac, France, 1790; died at Paris, 

 1832. French Egyptologist. 1807, went to Paris 

 to pursue Oriental studies. 1814, appointed 

 Professor of History at Lyceum of Grenoble. 

 Succeeded in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyph- 

 ics, which achievement involved him in a con- 

 troversy with Thomas Young on the question 

 of priority of discovery, although it is now gen- 

 erally conceded that Champollion worked inde- 

 pendently of Young. 



Charcot, Jean Martin, iv, 269. Born at Paris, 

 1825; died at Paris, 1893. French physician and 

 neurologist. Was Professor Pathological Anat- 

 omy, and afterward of Nervous Diseases in the 

 Faculty of Medicine. He made extensive inves- 

 tigations in hypnotism and hypnotic suggestion 

 for the treatment of hysteria and kindred dis- 

 ease. 



Christy, Henry, iii, 104. Born at Kingston, 

 England, 1810; died at La Palisse, France, 1865. 

 English ethnologist. Made special study of the 

 fossils discovered in the valley of the Vezere, 

 France, and made valuable contributions to our 

 knowledge of primitive man. 



Clark, Alvan, iii, 66. Born at Ashfield, Mass., 

 1808; died at Cambridge, 1887. American opti- 



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