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Biographical Notice of . Duvernoy. 105 
Telegraph and from 1833 to 1836 he made, in connection with his pu- 
sae Wilhelm Weber, the earliest useful experime ents in Electro-tele- 
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Montbéliard (department of Doubs) the 6th of August, 1777. Till the 
age of fifieen he remained with his parents and received his early 
education under the eye of his father. He then one to Stuttgard, 
where he remained only a short time, because the province of Montbe- 
liard having been added to the French Republic in October, 1793, 
young Duvern noy was required to we to France under the penalty 
of being considered as having emigrat He continued his studies at 
the Academy of Strasburg, then filled ‘with the recollections of the 
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pupil the chemist Braconnot. He there pursued the study of the 
and natural sciences and had already made great progress in the 
in 1799 he was called into active military thes gi 
physician in the army of the Alps, the left wing army of ltaly. 
An epidemic typbus which broke out in the army gave him 
tunity to distinguish himself by his courage and devotion. The distin- 
guished Parmentier, struck by the high courage and spirit of the youth- 
ful Duavernoy, wished to withers oe 7m ibe hazards of war and ob- 
! wing year. The earliest published 
abl laborer ae from this time, his latest me- 
one geet before his death. The interest which 
which re in 1799, under the title of ‘ padre sur les corps 
organisés et les sciences ‘qui en sont objet.’ On his return to Paris 
he finished vee studies and achieved his medical diploma by his thesis 
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Here ington abe real scientific life of Duvernoy, with the date-of his 
connection “with that illustrious man who lived to found the sciences of 
out the general nests which precede the cha eplers of descriptions in sig 
e 
rest was the work of our young anatomist twenty-s x 
Having at command the rich collection which Cuvier had destined for 
this gigantic work, he dissected constantly, prepared his descriptions, 
his master only cht ote the proo “sheets. Cuvier ofien mentione 
the value of the aid given him; he thus says in volume iii. of the “ Le- 
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