SCIENCE. 



FRIDAY, XOVEMHEU :J0, 1S83. 



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JOACHIM BARRANDE. 



1., HIS i.iri:.' 



TnK death of Joachim Bairniulc wlio for 

 more than half a centmv lias attracted tlie 

 respectful regards 

 of the world of 

 science, severs 

 the last link be- 

 tween the times 

 of Ciivier and our 

 own. The exam- 

 ple of this noble 

 life mav be truh; 

 said to have borne 

 t h re e fold fi-uit. 

 lie was. after 

 Cuvior, intellopt- 

 uallj- by far ll 

 most dangerui 

 of the opponciii 

 of evolution. II i 

 was great in his 

 works, and great 

 in the example of 

 a life devoted to 

 research and to 

 the service of his 

 unfortunate sov- 

 ereign. He be- 

 longed to t h a 1 

 illustrious body of 

 men who acknowl- 

 edged Cuvier as 

 their teacher of 



science : and, in 



order to under- 

 stand him, one must recognize this, and also 

 realize that to him loyalty was inseparable 

 from faith and truth. The chivalrous side of 



1 \Vc arc tndc-blcil to I'l-oft'^i^or .Juleii Nfarcou, an intiinutc 

 friend of M. Barrande, for tlic personal facts in this notice. 

 No. W.-- 1SSS. 



his character is best illustrated by the reason 

 which he gave for refusing peremptorily the 

 high honor of an election to the French acad- 

 emy. He said .simply that he had no desire 

 foi- momboiship in a society with such avowed 

 aims, but which had refused admission to some 

 of his niastcis in -( iciice — Alcide D'Orbigny, 

 Deshaycs, and 

 I'^douard J.,artet, 

 who h.ad taught 

 him all that he 

 knew. He dedi- 

 cated himself to 

 science always 

 without personal 

 reservation ; but 

 his opinions were 

 never free. He 

 \\ ns bound by his 

 I i\alty to the mem- 

 ory of his masters 

 in science, and by 

 his faith in the 

 doctrine of the 

 livine right of 

 kings : and both 

 in science and in 

 politics he re- 

 mained through- 

 out life a consist- 

 ent opiionent of 

 the new theories 

 of evolution and 

 republicanism. 



IJorn in the 

 year 17!l!l, in the 

 town of Saugnes, 

 department of 

 Haute Loire, we 

 first hear of him in is ID. when he entered the 

 ficole polytcchnique of Paris, whence he grad- 

 uated in 1S21 among the first in his class, and, 

 then passed into the ficole des ponts et chaus- 

 si'c8. graduating in 1«2l with high honors. 



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