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Biographical Notice of M. Duvernoy. 107 
ods, the first of which he passed at Strasburg and the second, which 
terminated with his life, in Paris. Before 1827, Duvernoy had never in- 
ar and he began the labors of his Professorial Chair with a re- 
vie of the progress of natural history in the first twenty-five years of this 
rtaliped: thus resumed his labors which were never again interrupted. 
he course with which he opened his career at Strasburg served as the 
point of a for a original researches. In 1828 he remodeled, ac- 
cording to his own i the oe of mammals, while in a se- 
ries of 27 memoirs mp oat down to 1838, he described a crowd of 
anatomical facts, and cleared up ae obscure points in Physiology. 
To 
the monograph ‘* des Musaraignes” ; his studies * Sur le foie,” the dis- 
covery “* Des cceurs accessoires de ‘la Chimére arctique ;” ‘ De Por- 
In 18% it 
expiate his absence of twenty — But he. very soon gave his atten- 
tion to the completion of his grea ore ier had left incomplete a 
second edition of his Comparative y- Davernoy in 1837 com- 
menced the revision of the hvch he had edited in 1805. He made 
volumes was finished in 1846. Nominated Dean of the Faculty of 
ciences at Strasburg in 1833, he did not resign these honorable duties 
until 1837 when — was entrusted with the chair of Natural History in 
the College of France. He was replaced by Dr. Lereboullet in the 
chair of Strasburg, fehs still holds it with distinction. His duties at the 
College of France commenced in 1838 and continued without interrup- 
hoped to put in print this last fruit of all his scientific studies, but death 
intervened to prevent. In the period from 1838 to 1850 he pr —— six- 
e 
new theory - the development of t 
-D was in succession, ihameipuniens of the Institute, and 
Free Acadsinitiend he occupied the chair of Cuvier at the College of 
France and at the Mus uséum d’Histoire Naturelle. On the 4th of De- 
cember, 1854, he was seized with an attack of suffocating bronchitis. 
hese ae farewell and cre them his lo M. Duver noy desired to be 
