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him. I shall never forget his visit to the Guatemala Pavilion, 

 the day of its inauguration, during the Paris International 

 Exhibition of 1889. He was most cordial to all of us 

 Commissioners of that Republic. 



Mr. Crisanto Medina, our President, at the end of his 

 reception handed him, for Madame Carnot, as a memorandum 

 of the day, a beautiful filigram silver Casket on which I had 

 stuck a fine specimen of Comètes phaon of my own collection, 

 displaying all the beauty of its tail. They were so much 

 pleased with it that in the Garden Party at the Elysées, which 

 took place a few days after, they were more than gracious to 

 all of us. 



Carnot, who will be always remembered in the future as 

 a great patriot, was born at Limoges on the 24th of August, 

 1837. He began his studies in the Lycée Bonaparte. From 

 there, he went to the Polytechnic School. In i860, he passed 

 first in his examinations as Engineer. He was nominated 

 Major in 1863. Until 1870 he worked as Engineer. 



During the elections of 1871, he was elected Member of 

 the National Assembly by the Department of Côte d'Or with 

 a great majority. Successively, he was Minister of Public 

 Works and of Finances. It is when he had the last portfolio 

 that he refused to acquiesce to the solicitations of Mr. Wilson. 



This act of independence was chiefly the cause of his 

 nomination to the Presidency of the French Republic. 



Everyone knows what he did during his Presidency. 



The death of Carnot has been a national disaster to 

 France. 



George Newbold Lawrence, Ornithologist, died at 

 his house in New York on the 17th January, 1895, at the 

 old age of 89 years. Lawrence was born in the city of New 

 York, where he resided all his life. Although engaged in 

 commercial pursuits of importance, he found time to gather a 

 very valuable Ornithological Collection, exclusively American. 

 In the space of fifty years he amassed a collection embracing 

 about 8000 specimens, among which were 300 types of new 

 species described by him. This collection is now the property 

 of the American Museum of Natural History. 



During fifty years, he published scientific Ornithological 

 papers of much interest, chiefly in the annals of the Lyceum 

 of Natural History of New York, the Proceedings of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Proceedings 



