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scope. As he was already well known to the French savants they were 
not slow in giving him a position and thus provided him with the 
means of continuing his s tudies, He was appointed to the chair of 
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nately destitute of scientific resources. Not wishing to remain long at 
such a distance from all scientific centres, he took his dismission and 
returned to Geneva long renowned for Saussure, DeCandolle, Dela Rive 
and Prevost. Now at length his intellectual wants were satisfied. De la 
Rive put at his disposal his scientific apparatus, and with these conven- 
iences he prepared his first memoir upon the radiation of heat, soon fol- 
\ lowed by many others, for which, on the recommendation of Faraday 
he obtained the Rumford Medal which had been given some years be- 
fore to Malus and Fresnel. At the same time M. Biot made an able 
report to the French Academy upon all the labors of Melloni, from his 
thermo- multiplier which was So sensitive as to be anor sagge by the heat 
sensible heat. He also studied the moon with reference to its radiation 
of heat and was a long time without obtaining satisfactory results. 
< However afier a time he succeeded, having used a lens a metre in di- 
' mewn and taking many precautions 
many remarkable labors called toward him the a of the 
Ttalian government. He was summoned to Naples as Professor of Phy- 
Sics, an charged with meteorological observations upon Venavied. He 
} . lowe A treatise upon’ the calorific s apectrans 6 entitled, La Thermo- 
f chrose,” was found among his — and published by his friends. Mel- 
F i was ac a ber of the French Institute, and also 
other ee bodie 
at Nancy in the department of eg on the 13th Jan., 1855, 
. where he was oe where nearly all his labors had been per- 
| formed. In another communication, | will give some biographical ac- 
count of this celebrat 
Death of Joseph Rompe have often brought before our readers 
the poor fisherman of the” Vosges mountains who without instruction, 
out sc was a discoverer in the domain of natural 
Y) and gave to humanity a new branch of useful industry well 
