362 Biographical Notice of Haiiy. 
a facts, and in vast stores of the most useful min- 
erals. a he 
We cannot conclude this hasty and imperfect notice 
without adverting again to the interesting contrast, (more 
than once mentioned already in this Journal) afforded by 
the present state of the mineralogical and geological 
knowledge in this country, in comparison with what it 
presented within the memory of many of its present culti- 
vators. 
Not many years have elapsed since but few per- 
sons knew the names even of the most common 
rocks and stones; and none had pretended to observe, 
much less to describe, the leading geological features of 
the country. Cabinets did not exist, nor was instruction 
any where to be obtained—now cabinets are numerous 
and extensive, Professors are found in most of our literary 
institutions ; active and enlightened observers are scattered 
all over our extensive territory, and surveys and descrip- 
tions are published of limited and extensive districts, of 
states and of the whole empire. Our countrymen have 
not been slow to perceive the important bearings of these 
sciences on individual and national wealth, and the most 
important results may be confidently anticipated from the 
constant progress of observation and discovery. 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 
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I. Foreten. 
Foreign Literature and Science selected and translated by Prof. Griscom. 
1. Biographical Notice of Haiiy. 
Ar the public session of the Academy of Sciences (June 
2d. 1823) a distinguished savant pronounced a merited 
eulogium on the illustrious Havy. He brought into view 
the labours of the natural philosopher, the mineralogist, 
and especially those of the professor: and animated his 
audience with an account of a life, at once simple, pure 
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