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France. 



Baron Boissel de Monville, anthor of Geodesical works, and a work 

 on Philosophy in 1824, under the title o( Peut-eire, aged 68. 



Baron George Cuvier, perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences ; a distinguished naturalist, aged 63. 



George Simon Serullas, a celebrated Chemist, aged 58. Seiz- 

 ed with Cholera, on returning from the obsequies of Cuvier. He 

 had been just elected to the chair of Chemistry in the Garden of 

 Plants, vacant by the death of M. Laugier. The vacancy again pro- 

 duced by his death, was filled on the 6th of August, by the election 

 of M. Dumas. 



Christian, ex-director of the Conservatory of Arts and 



Trades. 



Auguste Duvau, a distinguished botanist, aged 61. 



Evarisie Gallois, professor of Mathematics. 



Doctor Leroux, dean of the Medical Faculty of Paris, aged 83. 



Alberic Deville, professor of Natural History ; author of Fables 

 in poetry. 



Meyranx, professor of Natural History ; author of various 



useful works. 



Jean Frangois ChampoUion, celebrated in Egyptian Antiquities, 

 aged 42. 



Abel Remusat, a celebrated orientalist. 



Guillaume- Louis- Julien Carre, author of a learned work on the 

 Civil Code, aged 55. — Rev. Encyc. 



2. Sketches of the lives of Louis Simond and Charles-Victor 

 BoNSTETTEN, by M. DeCandolle. — In an anniversary discourse, de- 

 livered by M. DeCandolle, as Rector of the Academy of "Geneva, are 

 the following notices of the lives of two literary men of that city, one 

 of whom was for several years well known as a man of letters, and a 

 distinguished merchant in the United States. 



Extract. — After having spoken of our progress, I must also speak 

 of our losses, and in doing this I enter upon the most painful part of 

 the task imposed upon me. The year which has just elapsed, will 

 long be distinguished in Europe, by mournful characters on account 

 of the number of distinguished men who have finished their course 

 within its narrow limits. ChampoUion, Cassini, Cuvier, Abel-Remu- 

 sat, Goethe. Mackintosh, Bentham, &;c. and although we have thus far 

 enjoyed the favored privilege of an exemption from the scourge 



