184 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF EVENTS. 



179®. Proposal made to M. Cuvier, by Count Bertholiet, to ac- 

 company the expedition to Egypt ; which oifer was refused. 



1800, Appointed Professor at the College de France, on which 

 M. Cuvier resigned the chair at the Central School of the 

 , Pantheon. 



Elected Secretary to the Class of Physical and Mathe- 

 matical Sciences of the Institute. 



