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This was also done in a second case. Numerous objects were 

 gathered, some in a fossil state, and some, which I was able 

 to demonstrate {Memoirs of the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society of Manchester, Vol. X., 3rd Series, Plate 2), 

 were mere casts of the sandy surface left by the retiring waves 

 of the sea. Though such well understood differences existed 

 between us, no break of friendly feeling ever manifested itself. 

 He continued his labours, uninfluenced by the conclusions of 

 most of his opponents ; but at length the man of all others, 

 M. Grand-Eury, abandoned his old conclusions about the 

 coal-plants, and boldly announced to the Academy of 

 Paris his conversion to my views. To do this, required no 

 small measure of courage. His change led Saporta, though 

 very unwillingly, in the same direction. He was the only 

 one of my opponents who expressed himself rather angrily 

 at being misled by Brongniart. A Science Academy 

 having been formed at Aix, where Saporta had a princely 

 home, I need scarcely add that he soon became the head, 

 not only of it but of other institutions in the town. The 

 Aix Academy is not only a scientific one ; it exists also for 

 the encouragement of literature, agriculture, and so forth ; 

 it was not recently founded, but has been established for 

 many years. Only three days before his death in February, 

 1895, Saporta delivered an address at the Academy, the 

 eloquence of which arrested most forcibly the attention of 

 everyone who heard it, but which gave no note of what was 

 to follow three days later. He was an earnest Romanist. 



He had for many years had an estate at Fonscolombe, 

 at which place he was interred. He was elected an 

 honorary member of the Society in 1892. W. C. W. 



AUGUST Kundt was born at Schwerin, in Mecklenburg, 

 on the 1 8th of November, 1839, and was educated until his 

 twentieth year at the Gymnasium of his native town. In 

 1859 he entered the University of Leipsic, at which he 

 studied mathematics and natural philosophy under Hankel 



