Obituary.— Marcel de Serres—H. B. A. Moquin-tandon. 401 
of giving some details of these repasts, now become classic, and which 
lastly, a and coffee. When he had no guests, he took for his yndehing 
milk, while receiving calls. 
eft numerous manuscript notes, and a library well supplied with 
French, English and German works. 
arcel de Serres died at Montpellier, July 22d, 1862, at the age of 82, 
in the midst of age labors, and almost, as it were, without laying 
down his work. * 
[A notice of the ife and labors of de Serres will-be found in vo). xxxiv, 
p- 303 of this Journal.—Eps 
Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin- -tandon was born at Montpellier, May 
7th, 1804, and died on the 15th of last April. Called to the Faculty e 
Sciences of Toulouse in 1833, as professor of botany, in 1850, together kn 
fr. Montagne, he was appointed by the government to inake a thoro 
examination of the flora of the island of Corsica, After the ‘cai of 
the botanist — in 1853, Moquin-tandon was appointed to fill his 
of botany to the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, and 
director of st net garden belonging to that institution. The follow- 
ing year he was elected an acting member of the Academy, having pre- 
viously hah a rivet re He was vice- president of the Society of 
Acclimation. 
He published various researches upon both zoology and botany ; among 
them, the following :—*“ Upon the manner in which the officinal leeches 
first enter the skin, and on the wound which they inflict ;” “ Monograph 
of the family of the Hirudines,” 1 vol. 8vo, with another of 44 plates— 
“ Researches upon the Ancylus,” “ Essay upon the nt ges of organs 
of vegetables” —* Elements of vegetable cenisilage” 
As a professor, Moquin-tandon was endowed with a - ste ease of man- 
ner, and united to the clearness of verbal demonstration a great aoe 
representing upon the board, in a simple — 3 manner, the for 
and structure of the object which he was dese 
Auguste Bravais was born in 1811, at maibeuss alan ep While 
serving in the capacity of midshipman, he made a voyage to the 8 
regions, in 1836, and, upon his return, res a report uj 
gical 
of lieutenant, he left the service and aecepted ap Lestrsliip ip in the 
Faculty of Sciences at Lyons. In 1846 he was appointed to the chair 
upon the general vices ves rectiseriate leaves” —“ Memoi “upon the 
old ag of the — Finmark”— ‘U he prota pheno- 
pon t 
mena”—“ Upon symmetrical ‘po lyhedrons”—* Studies upon crystallo- 
graph 17s Upon pari" —* Upon the white rainbow”—* Upon halos” 
uence ek rotation of the earth exercises upon the movement 
ae the watt; metas — Researches upon feeble double refractions.” 
