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chosen by government, pro- 

 fessor to the Normale School, 

 established in 1794, and was 

 sent about the same time 

 into Holland and Italy to ex- 

 amine the agriculture ofthese 

 countries. He was com- 

 missioned to add to the 

 Garden of Plants fruits of the 

 best quality; and we find in 

 them not only a great variety 

 of fruit trees, but also plants 

 used for the food of men and 

 animals, and those used in the 

 different arts. The school 

 which he founded contains 

 examples of pruned trees, 

 grafts, inclosures, and hedges 

 of different kinds. The pub- 

 lic regrets that M. Thouin 

 has not published the Lessons 

 of Agriculture which he ar- 

 ranged in the form of tables, 

 and there specified the know- 

 ledge acquired by profound 

 theory, and daily practice. 

 A member of the institution 

 of the central Society of 

 Agriculture, &c. he has pub- 

 lished in the Memoirs of that 

 Society, in the Annals of the 

 Museum, and in the Diction- 

 ary of Natural History, several memoirs and articles. He wrote a great 

 part of the Agricultural Dictionary; of the Methodical Encyclopedia; and 

 also the 11th and 12th vols, of Rozier's Course of Agriculture. The 27th 

 of October this respectable man finished an honourable career, every period 

 of which is marked by studies useful to the progress of agriculture. The 

 29th of the same month his mortal remains were deposited in the burying 

 ground of Pere la Chaise. Deputations from the Academy, the Society of 

 Agriculture, and other learned bodies, assisted at the ceremony. The 

 Baron Cuvier delivered a speech in the name of that learned assembly. 

 We shall extract some passages of it, which display the virtues and merits 

 of a man so justly regretted : — ; 



" Gentlemen, it is modesty and science, united to the most amiable 

 simplicity, we lose to day in the good old man whose remains this tomb is 

 about to cover. This coffin, surrounded at once by the members of an 

 illustrious body, and the humble workmen of a great establishment, equally 

 watered with their tears, is that of a man, who belongs to both families, 

 and by which he was equally beloved and revered. Born in the king's 

 garden, succeeding two or three of those patriarchal generations whose 

 labours for nearly a century embellished and improved this magnificent, 

 depot of the riches of nature, M. Thouin there found in some respeqts 'm 

 hereditary domain; considered it his country, and placed his existence .there. 

 Those celebrated: men BufFon and Jussieu thought themselves honored 

 to see him seated beside them, and learned Europe no longer omitted to 

 spuod bis fame.' From that time his modest career became better, known 5 , 

 and few men have displayed a more useful influence. Become the centre 

 of a correspondence which extended to all parts of the world, he did not 



