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ited works which it is proper to hope will soon be published. Tis last 
labors were the publication of the works of Fresnel by virtue of a com- 
mission with which he had been charged by the Minister of Public In- 
struction. He had collected with care the seattered materials and had 
written a great. number of ex lanatory notes. He had not had time to 
complete this ieciele so —- waited for by men of science, which how- 
ever will be published ere 
drian Etienne Pierre De Gasparin was born at Orange (Vaucluse), 
June 29th, 1783. His father was a celebrated member of the Con- 
vention, and was distinguished at the siege of Toulon. Bonaparte, the 
exile of St. Helena, remembered in his will this young commander of 
artillery, who was afterwards a general, bequeathing a sum of money to 
the children of this revolutionary hero. They had no need of it, how- 
ever, as = possessed an ample fortune. 
ant whom we have just mentioned was at first a soldier. 
Re n ors 
a distinguished position among cotemporary auinaiiete After the 
revolution of 1830, he was successively prefect, peer of France, Under 
retary of State, then Minister of the Interior ats: and lastly Min- 
t of Commerce and Agriculture. During his progress to power, he 
i e- 
med his agricultural studies. At this time he was e 
member of. the Academy of Sciences, in the section of Agriculture, in 
bie of Turpin. He devoted — ec to pm and merit 
title of successor of Olivier de Serres, whose descendant he was by 
aaa of the marriage of one of ‘his sucess with the daughter of the 
‘aa French agriculture 
ong his works should be mentioned especially his Traité d’ Agri- 
culture (6 vols. in 8vo.), his memoirs upon the multiplication of races, 
‘pon the suutagions diseases of sheep, upon the raising of merino 
on the culture of madder, and of the mulberry. He made extensive 
‘DVestigations in meteorolo ogy, especially upon the distribution of rain, 
“a pubiished valuable experiments upon solar radiation. He died at 
nge, his native village, the 7th of September, 1862, French agricul- 
ri ine hav eee commenced a subscription for the erection of a statue 
Fran no is Jomard was born at Versailles, Nov. 22, shes Te left 
Polytechnie school in 1794 and entered as geographical engineer 
in the school of surveying, (Zcole de Géographie du Cadastre tre). At the 
* hi of 21 he joined the expedition to Egypt. At the commencement of 
Campaign he took part in forming a topogra aphieal plan of Alexan- 
dria, Measured and drew the less known monuments under the direction 
orpora 
oa” works, On ar departure — Egypt, contrary ‘itd having 
ined 1 hima in ie picpnonos he took the opportunity to cet the 
Ax. Jour. Sct.—Seconp Szntes, V oes MEE No, 104.—Mancu, 
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