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‘tion, wherein are found some of the most interesting sections and 
most important features in English geology. 
In 1824 he became Divisionary Inspector. and Member of the 
Council of Mines: in the duties of this department his judgment 
and experience were of essential value to the public service; he in- 
troduced new and beneficial regulations for the general administra- 
tion of the mines ; he was also the cause of great improvements in 
the manufacture of glass at St. Gobin, being one of the most active 
directors of that celebrated establishment. 
In 1833, M. Brochant assisted M. Elie de Beaumont and M. Du- 
frénoy in procuring an order from the government for the prepara- 
tion of geological maps of the Departments, on a larger scale and 
with fuller details than the great geological map of France, now 
nearly completed*. His health had for a long time suffered, and 
his death was accelerated by excessive zeal in the discharge of his 
many public duties, which prompted him continually to exert him- 
self beyond his strength, and terminated the career of his useful life 
at the age of 67, having long enjoyed the dignity of an Officer of 
the Legion of Honour, and Member of the Institute of France; he 
has carried with him to the grave the love and veneration of all. 
He was a man of remarkable integrity and kindness of heart ; he 
hada taste for literature and poetry ; wasaskilful, well-informed and 
judicious engineer; and performed with zeal the duties of a Pro- 
fessor for more than thirty years. At his death he was one of the 
oldest Members of the Council of Mines. He has left behind him 
fruits of his solid and useful labours, that will long be of service to 
his country. 
Some years before his death, M. Brochant’s health no longer per- 
mitting him to lecture, he appointed his pupils, MM. Elie de Beau- 
mont and Dufrénoy, to perform his duties; the former in the geolo- 
gical, the Jatter in the mineralogical portion of his lectures: these 
gentlemen have since been confirmed in their office as permanent 
lecturers. 
At his burial on the 19th May 1840, funeral discourses were 
pronounced by M. Migneron, Inspector-General of Mines, and by 
his early friend and colleague, M. Alexandre Brongniart. 
M. Puitipre-Louts Vourtz, Inspector-General of Mines, and 
Member of the Council of the Geological Society of France, was, 
like the immortal Cuvier, a native of Alsace, and for many years 
held an appointment in the direction of the mines of that province; 
which about, two years before his death he quitted for a higher 
station in the Bureau des Mines, that required his residence at Paris, 
where he died, March 29, 1840. 5 
Besides the usual accomplishments of his profession, he possessed 
a very accurate and extensive knowledge of organic remains, of 
which he has left proofs, in many valuable and ingenious monographs 
published in the ‘Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de 
'* A considerable number of these are already completed, and deposited 
in the Mining Archives at Pavis. 
