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AMERICAN e. 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Arr. L—Eulogy on Von Buch; by Professor Corra of Freiberg.* 
Ar?Freiberg on the 19th of March was held a funeral festival 
in honor of Leoroip von Bucn, the most sii geologist of 
our time, who died in Berlin on the 4th o 
At 7 o’clock, p.m., the scientific andience pitch ontir in the Wer- 
nerian Hall of the Academy of Mines, which unfortunately did 
not possess extent enough to allow of ‘the unusual attendance of 
the public at large. Professor Heuchler had decorated the ceno- 
taph with the coat of arms and portrait of the deceased. Fittin 
geological specimens surrounded its base, which all had especial 
fessor Pee ae ac vga translation of an en ip 0 
have 
Ss t 
_ itis taken from the Leipzig “ Illustrirti ti Zeitung of A pil 9th, where the proceed- 
ings at length, with the illustrations, are giv speech on the part of the stu- 
dents I have left out; and you also omit if po better, the introductory 
remarks of deg cay aa the translation. I have translated the 
address t give: rtrait of the remarkable man by one who knew 
him intimately, we also ‘that his abors may be better known ecoet they perhaps are 
in America, where he desired so much in his latter days to go, and of whose munifi- 
was 
young again to ao there: and Seuite eile If to the development 
a Thave the honor to be, Sir, your ob’t serv't, 
Royal Saxon Acad, of Mines, Freiberg, dane — 1853. 
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