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SCIENCE. 



701 



prehension, they attri lulled to him a mastciy 

 of the black art of divination, and a possible 

 intimaov with the devil himself. 



In finishing his work, neither money nor la- 

 bor was spared : the best illustrators were con- 

 stantly employed ; and one, INI. Ilnmbert, be- 

 came noted, lived constantly with him, and died 

 in liis employ after twenty-five years of service. 



Barrande found it necessarj- to be his own 

 publisher. lie accordingly organized a French 

 press at Prague ; and the typography of his 

 books justifj- his own assertion, that they could 

 not have been printed with greater technical 

 elegance b^- any press in Paris. We know 

 from personal inspection that errors arc very 

 rare. The quotations, which generally show 

 carelessness, if any part of a book does, excel 

 in this respect ; and the desire for correctness 

 has been carried so far, that, instead of tables 

 of > corrigenda,' he has carefully corrected 

 errors with printed slips pasted upon the pages 

 of the text. All this was done while engagetl 

 in administering a fortune of about fifty mil- 

 lions of francs, and arranging many compli- 

 cated questions of business connected with iiis 

 position, and relations to the Comtc de Chani- 

 bord, which required much time, and many 

 journeys to ditlerent parts of Europe. That 

 this was accomplished successfull3- is shown 

 by the terms of the will of thi.s last heir of 

 the elder Bourbons, who appointed him his 

 executor. The expenses of the whole woik 

 were met by the personal sacrifice of his own 

 income from all sources, but principally by tlic 

 generous assistance of his royal friend. Tiiese 

 presents were alwa^'s made with the greatest 

 delicacy by the coimt as his subscriptions to 

 the ' Syst(>me silurien dc la Bohome ; ' and 

 Barran<le has recognized their essential impor- 

 tance in dedicating each of his volumes to 

 tliis generous patron, and also bj' a direct 

 statement that his own labors would have 

 fiiiled but for this assistance. The world of 

 science owes to the Bourbou family its per- 

 petual recognition of this example of friend- 

 ship and generosity, which has brought out to 

 full fruition the life of one of its representa- 

 tive men. 



No government can point to a finer .single 

 momimenl to science than this one, created by 

 an exile in a foreign eountrj' ; and the sums 

 expended were large, since, as we are assured, 

 the average cost of each of the twenty-two 

 volumes, as estimated by Barrande himself, 

 was not less than twenty thousand francs, mak- 

 ing a grand total of nearly ninety thousand 

 dollars for the parts pul)lishcd up to the pres- 

 ent time. j\I. Barrande never married ; and 

 his only surviving relatives are a sister, Mme. 

 Vuillet, aud a brother somewhat younger, M. 

 .loseph Barrande. a distinguished engineer. 



It is inipossililc adequately to present a life 

 so varied and so full of activity in every ilirec- 

 tion, at once scientific, and yet so picturesque 

 from political and social stand-points. He 

 h.id become, before his death, the only survivor 

 of the ancient servitors of the royal house of 

 France ; aud the cause, and even the surround- 

 ings, of his de.ath, completed the beautiful 

 picture of his life of voluntary exile and chiv- 

 alrous service. He sacrificed himself to his 

 duty as executor, and died from a cold con- 

 tracted from exposure while engaged in carry- 

 ing out the last wi.shes of the man who had 

 been to him ])upil. friend, patron, and right 

 ful sovereign. I-Iis decease took place Oct. 

 .'>. at the Cliateau of Frohsdorf, near Vienna, 

 under the same roof, and within a short time 

 after the death of the (omte de C'hambord. We 

 who are republicans cannot estimate his mo- 

 tives, nor feel with him .as a royalist, but we 

 can respect the rare moral qualities of his 

 devotion ; and we feel, also, that it is essen- 

 tial to express our reverence and gratitude 

 to the memory of a really great man for his 

 consideration and kindness to all j'ouug stu- 

 dents in science who have had occasion to 

 come into personal or professional relations 

 with him. 



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