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ing to M. F. Hoef er, in the " Biographie generate," gave him a 

 place in the front rank of the economists of his time. He partici- 

 pated in the work of the commission on a new system of weights 

 and measures. As treasurer of the Academy he set the accounts 

 and inventories in order, and discovered some forgotten funds of 

 the institution, and made them available. "In short, Lavoisier 

 was to be found everywhere ; and his facility and zeal, equally 

 admirable, were adequate for everything." 



On the 2d of May, 1794, twenty-eight of the farmers-general, 

 of whom Lavoisier was fourth on the list, were accused in the Con- 

 vention of conspiring with the enemies and against the people of 

 France. On the 6th of May they were all condemned to death, 

 and on the 8th were executed together. Lavoisier and his friends 

 hoped that his great scientific eminence and the undoubted useful 

 character of his career might be brought to bear to save him. 

 Some efforts were made to exert such influence. Lavoisier himself 

 drew up a memoir of what he had done for the Revolution. The 

 Bureau of Consultations presented a detailed report on his labors. 

 A deputation of the Lycee des Arts visited him at the Concier- 

 gerie, bearing " to Lavoisier, the most illustrious of its members," 

 a testimonial of its admiration. 



Lavoisier left no children. He is described as having had a 

 pleasing, intellectual face, and having been of large figure and of 

 pleasant, sociable, and obliging disposition. 



His most important works were : " Opuscules physiques et 

 chimiques" ("Physical and Chemical Worklets," 1774), "Mdthode 

 de Nomenclature chimique" ("Method of Chemical Nomencla- 

 ture," 1787), "Traite* eldmentaire de Chimique" ("Elementary 

 Treatise on Chemistry," 1789). A complete edition of his works, 

 published by the French Minister of Public Instruction, 1864- , 68, 

 included these books, fifty-eight memoirs communicated to the 

 Academy of Sciences between 1770 and 1790, and numerous notes, 

 letters, and reports relating to the various affairs in which he 

 was engaged. He had himself begun to prepare a collection 

 of his works, the completed portions of which were published 

 by his widow in 1805 in two volumes entitled " Mdmoires de 

 Chimie." 



Consumption, according to Dr. Irving A. "Watson, prevails in all parts of New 

 Hampshire, but is apparently influenced by topographical conditions. It is more 

 prevalent at a low elevation with a maximum soil moisture than in the higher 

 elevations with a less moist soil. The season has only a small influence upon the 

 mortality from the disease ; the mortality is considerably greater among women, 

 and no age is exempt from it ; but the least liability to contract it exists between 

 the ages of two and fifteen, and the greatest between twenty and thirty. The 

 death-rate is relatively much the larger among the foreign-born. 



