1841 Dr. Burmeister ; G.W. Featherstonhaugh 333 



Dr. Burmeister, who dined as the President's guest on 

 June 17, was no doubt the able naturalist, geologist, and 

 professor of Halle, who drew many students to his eloquent 

 lectures, and to whom geology is indebted for monographs 

 on Trilobites and Labyrinthodonts. 



Professor Christie invited on October 7th Jacques Charles 

 Frangois Sturm, an eminent French mathematician who 

 some years before, when he was only four-and-twenty, had, 

 in conjunction with his friend Daniel Colladon, carried off 

 the " Grand prix de mathematiques " proposed by the 

 Academy of Sciences of Paris for the best essay on the 

 compression of liquids. Having filled several successive 

 chairs and discovered and published the celebrated theorem 

 which bears his name, he was now Professor of Mechanics 

 at the Faculty of Sciences. He had been elected a foreign 

 member of the Royal Society in 1840. To this same dinner 

 Professor Sturm's friend Colladon had accompanied him on 

 the invitation of Wheatstone. 



Professor Vogel dined on January 7 on the invitation of 

 Major Sabine ; Manackgie Curitzu on May 13 as the guest 

 of the President, and Professor Wartman on October 7, 

 introduced by J. F. Daniell. 



To a few of the English visitors of this year brief reference 

 may be made. Sir Richard Jenkyns, invited by Sir George 

 Staunton, had spent many years in India as Resident at 

 several courts. On coming back to England he entered 

 Parliament and eventually was elected Chairman of the East 

 India Company. 



Murchison invited G. W. Featherstonhaugh, one of his 

 intimate friends, of whom he has stated that he was the 

 first in 1831 to introduce the European ideas of geology 

 into the United States, and that he induced President Jack- 

 son to appoint him State Geologist. Murchison further 

 records that " at the time of the French Revolution of 

 1848, when Louis- Philippe fled from Paris and was hid 

 in a cottage with Queen Amelie on the south bank of the 

 Seine, opposite to Havre, it was Featherstonhaugh, then 

 British Consul at Havre, who managed to get the family 



