150 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
its first appearance. Deshayes is fond of tracing back the origin of 
his scientific opinions to 1830, and their gradual enlargement, We cat 
not but admire this spirit in the critic, as vigorous as it was thirty years 
ago, which has enabled him to appreciate and assimilate all that science 
has produced good and durable tor so long a period of time, so that he 
still retains the first place among all those who have taken his work as4 
point of departure. 
The death of Berthier at a very advanced age is well known.* The 
place which he has left vacant at the Academy of Sciences will prob- 
ably become the heritage of Henry St.Claire Deville, and although his 
position in the hierarchical scale of the learned world has not been pro 
portioned to his talents, I am pleased to mention that it was only om 
account of the happy longevity of chemists: the same is true of a place 
in the Section of Mineralogy which he will occupy. He will then be 
attached to us by a new tie, and the day of his nomination will be a ume 
of rejoicing to his numerous friends, 
Daubrée has taken the chair of Geology at the Jardin des Plantes 
What a complete revolution! Cordier, his predecessor, did not be- 
lieve either in metamorphism, or in the existence of glaciers, [in the ge 
logical period ?] or in the multiplicity of species of feldspar, and felt co 
strained to restrict as much as possible the investigations of chemists in 
mineralogy and geology. 
I do not think there is much evil in this; in science all malo 
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recated by some yo 
tion was established by the execution of a geological chart of hye pee 
vigor of his instruction which he exhibited in a speci but 
lectures like those delivered at the Jardin des Plantes have 
* See a notice of Berthier on p. 108. 
by the 
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