LD’ Abbé Brunet. 495 
This points to the following as the probable formula :— 
CH, 
| 
NO.—C, H,—NH, 
NO,—C, H,—NH, 
CH, 
It was thought probable that this compound like other 
nitro derivatives of the aromatic series might be reduced 
and a tetra-amido derivative thus obtained, but this reduc- 
tion could not beaffected. When dinito tolidin is submitted 
to the reducing action of nascent hydrogen, evolved either 
from tin and hydrochloric acid or from sodium amalgam, 
it breaks down into tolidin, and by no means employed 
could the nitro groups be reduced to amidogen. 
( Continued.) 
; CuemicaAL LABORATORY, 
McGill Uniy., Med. Faculty. } 
October, 1889. 
L’Assé Lovis OvipDE BRUNET:! 
Louis Ovide Brunet, priest in the Archdiocese of Quebec, 
and Professor of Botany in the University of Laval, was 
the second son of Jean Olivier Brunet and of Dame Cecile 
Lagueux, who kept an honorable commercial house in 
Quebec. He was born in the Lower Town the tenth day of 
March, 1826, After having pursued a brilliant course of 
study in the Petite Seminaire, he consecrated himself to the 
priesthood and was ordained on the first of October, 1848. 
He was successively Vicar at Notre Dame de Quebec, of 
St. Joseph de Levis, Missionary at the station of Grosse 
Isle, and priest at Valcartier. In 1854 he passed to the 
rectory of St. Lambert, where he remained until his 
entrance to the Seminary of Quebec. 
‘From L’Annuaire de L’ Université Laval, pour L’Année Acade- 
mique 1877-78, 
