2 Prof. Cotta’s Eulogy on Von Buch. 
teference to his scientific labors—such as ammonites and tere- 
bratulas, lava masses aud other eruptive rocks, jurassic limestone, 
aud chalk, druses of crystals and fossil leaves from the brown coal. 
The mining and smelting officers of the crown, the professors 
of the Academy, in uniform, together with the students, at present 
uncommonly numerous even from the most distant foreign lands, 
filled the academic halls. 
Professor Breirnaurt first ascended the tribune and opened 
the exercises with the following remarks :— 
Honored Friends! An aged, venerated and lordly oak in the 
German grove of science has fallen. Leopold von Buch is no 
more! Deeply do we feel this painful loss, the more deeply, as 
we may justly say, that in many respects, he belonged especially 
to us. Already in 1790 he was matriculated at the Academy of 
Mines at this place, and here his gifted genius laid the foundation 
of its subsequent comprehensive attainments. He ever remained 
true and attached to his alma mater, kindly communicating the 
rich fruits of his profound observations and investigations, and 
supporting without intermission a friendly intercourse with the 
literati of Freiberg. Only three years since, at Werner’s festival 
held at this place, where he was the foremost ornament among 
those then present, he proved his old and honorable attachments 
by a noble act of munificence. To such a man are we in duty 
bound to pay a public token of our reverent acknowledgment 
and of our warmest thanks; and for that purpose are we here 
to-day convened—at this festival to his memor 
Through Professor Cotta we shall forthwith learn how much 
and what signal service the great geognost and geologist has reu- 
dered to science. The extent of Von Buch’s merit will ever 
cause his name to shine forth bright and brighter asa star of the 
first magnitude, not alone in Germanic literature, but also where- 
ever his favorite science may find a votary. By ws can he never 
be forgotten—to us he will be ever peculiarly near and dear. 
Then followed the eulogy by Professor Corra. 
We stand here before the manes and before the portrait of a 
man who devoted his whole life to Nature—of a man who once 
was F'reiberg’s and Werner’s scholar, and whose 
f mining life. 
Leopold Baron von Buch was born on the 26th of April, 1774, 
probably at the old ancestral castle of the family at Stolpe, in the 
Uckermark in Prussia. Scarcely 16 years of age, he entered, on 
the 10th June, 1790, Freiberg’s walls, where, under Werner’s 
especial guardianship, and partially in own house, he spent 
