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his property had been confiscated and his salary stopped. 

 Cut to the heart by this cruel treatment he Had himself 

 naturalised in England as the home of true liberty. He 

 subsequently lived in France, where he died in 1849. He 

 wrote his Memoirs, which are full of graphic details about 

 the Emperor Paul. 



On May igth two notable Frenchmen dined with the 

 Club Alexandre Brongniart, invited by Murchison, and 

 Henri Milne-Edwards, the guest of Roget. The former 

 visitor has already come before us (p. 215). Henri Milne- 

 Edwards, of English parentage, became one of the most 

 eminent of French naturalists. At the time of his visit 

 to London he was thirty-six, and taught natural history 

 at the College of Henry IV. with such success that in 1838 

 he was elected into the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and 

 a few years later he entered on a long professional career, 

 during which he rendered good service to the sciences of 

 comparative zoology and physiology, both by his prelec- 

 tions and by the books and papers that came from his pen. 

 In 1848 he was chosen as one of the Foreign Members of 

 the Royal Society. 



The Professor von Raumer, invited both to the July and 

 August dinner, was probably the German historian who 

 published this year two octavo volumes on " Elizabeth and 

 Mary Stuart," based on his study of documents in the British 

 Museum, and who between 1836 and 1841 gave forth three 

 volumes on " England." 



Lieutenant Wilkes, of the United States navy, dined on 

 November I7th as guest of Francis Baily. Two years later 

 he was put in command of a great exploring expedition, 

 fitted out by the American navy for the purpose of visiting 

 the coasts of South America and the western coast of North 

 America, the island groups of the Pacific Ocean, and a wide 

 expanse of the Antarctic regions. This famous voyage 

 extended over four years, and the official " Narrative " of 

 its doings fills six volumes, which were published in 1845. 

 On his return Wilkes was promoted commander in 1843, 

 captain in 1855, and admiral in 1866. Perhaps the most 



