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age of the State. In order to give a course of lectures before this new 
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fulness perfectly fitted for his duties, enjoying the entire confidence of 
the whole agricultural community, and bound by the strongest ties of 
personal regard and affection to a large circle of friends, 
e was a man of noble generosity and the highest moral excellence, 
as well as accurate science ; we doubt not that death has opened to him 
Cuartes ATHanasius Baron pe WALcKENAER, (Murchison’s Address 
before the Geograph. Soc., 1852.) — Ee ep died recently at Paris at 
an advanced age. He was a member of the Academy of Inscriptions 
and Belles Lettres, and of the Institute of France, of which during the 
last twelve years he had been perpetual secretary. Though he was the 
author of works which have procured for him an European fame as a 
writer on geography, it is to be noted that his first appearance in the 
‘world of letters was as a naturalist, and by publishing works on insects 
tion of Azzara’s ‘ Voyages dans |’Amérique Méridionale.’ Indeed, we 
learn from himself, that, soridet all his eccoerig linet his real pase 
_ sion was comparative geography, and of this success- 
_ ful proof in his remarkable work ‘entitled ¢ Géopreses Ancienne, His. 
torique et Comparée, des baby Cisalpines et Transalpines,—a work 
which obtained for him one of the great prizes of the Institute, and a ~ 
place in that ss ae minent geographers, such as Delisle, 
D’Anville, ell, Gosselin, and Vincent, had adm itted the vast diffi- 
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from the different measures referred to by classical authors; but our 
at reed and indefatigable associate overcame all such obstacles. 
M. de Walckenaer published other geographical eaths on ancient 
modern eography, an historical view of the East, Polynesia, — 
Australia, on the interior of North Africa, teste a general history of 
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He was also a good biographer, having pablished the * Life and 
i i Horace,’ and the ‘ Memoirs of 
Madame de Sévigné ;’ by the last-mentioned of which ot he is per- 
haps best known to the general reader. . The first lines in it show how 
well he could impart the artistic feeling of a geogra rapher to a literary 
production ; for the old castle of Bourbilly, in which the inimitable au- 
thoress was born, is there placed before us me ge ip nd of a master, 
as gr by its meadows, slopes, apoksy on 
M. alckenaer, who had 
tion of hapless became Sec sea of the Ta artment of the 
Seine at the Bourbon restoration, and was created a Baron in 1830 
He was one of the most frequent attendants at the meetings of the 
Academy, of which he Eger been a member since 1813, and was, when 
he died, a Vice-President of the Geographical Society of France. 
