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to his science. Neverthéless, there can be no question about 
his large-hearted charity. He instituted the “ Orédit Foncier,” 
which flourishes in great prosperity to this day; he also 
founded the “Caisse de Rétraite pour la Vieillesse,” and several 
other agricultural charities, which, though less successful, 
afford great assistance to aged workmen. Louis Napoleon 
used to say in jest that the whole of the War Minister’s budget 
? 
hygiene. 
It was to be expected that a man working with such eminent 
success in so many spheres of activity, and at one of the chief 
centers of the world’s culture, should be loaded with medals, 
and marks of distinction of every kind. It would be idle to 
enumerate the orders of knighthood, or the learned societies, to 
which he belonged, for, so far from their honoring him, he hon- 
ored ther in accepting their membership. It is a pleasure, 
however, to remember that he lived to realize his highest am- 
bitions and to enjoy the fruits of his well-earned renown. 
France has added his name in the Pantheon 
‘Aux Granps HommeEs LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE.” 
Art. XXXVIII.—A New Meteorite; by I. R. Easrman. 
WSILE staying over Sunday in the city of Grand Rapids, 
Mich., in September 1883, I saw in a local newspaper a refer- 
ence to a strange, heavy, metallic mass which was to be seen in 
the store of Mr. C. G. Pulcher. Early Monday morning I 
found the store and immediately recognized the meteoric 
character of the mass. 
on land belonging to the Catholic Church in Grand Rapids. 
It was found ston three feet below the natural surface of the 
ground wedged between two large bowlders and was removed 
With considerable difficulty. The finder feeling certain that he 
ad secured a valuable prize kept his secret for some weeks 
and expended much time and labor with hammer and cold 
chisel in the attempt to cut off the smaller end. He succeeded, 
however, only in mutilating the unusually fine specimen by cut- 
ing a groove about three-sixteenths of an inch deep quite 
around the mass and six inches from the smaller end. 
