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_. This was a result which he (the Chairman) considered highly probable, 
a rect 
“communication from the Baltic to the vicinity of t Cau- 
. casus, which was considered the natural geographical boundary of India. 
They must remember that already there was a direct water-communica- 
8; 
Ss nounced that Professor Aug. Kekulé of Ghent has been offered the di- 
. American Association For the Advancement of Science.—The next 
Pg of the American Association will be held at Burlington, Vermont, 
and commences on the 2ist of August next. Prof. J. 8. Newberry is 
nt for the year, and Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, Vice President. 
OBITUARY. 
bie OPE Jutes Pziovzz, died on Friday Jast, the 31st of May, at 
country house at Bellevue, close to Sévres. Born the 13th of Febru- 
in » 1807, at Valognes (Département de la Manche), he inherited his love 
eg On various branches of applied chemistry—on glass-ma ng, on 
for} mg, On colors and varnish-making, on washing and bleaching 
et years old when Gay-Lussac made him his assistant, and pub- 
‘fome of his researches conjointly with him. ree years later, in 
—e became professor of chemistry at Lille. Here he examined the 
on fret, Peettoot, and, in conjunction with Kuhlmann, published a paper 
Lussng mentation, From 1831 until 1847 he took the place of Gay- 
48 Professor of Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechni nd at about 
the age to go to Giessen, and to publish joint researches zh Th bi ‘on ae 
