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_ aged forty-five years. 
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death his testament declaring in general terms as follows: I will that 
after my death there shall be an autopsy practiced upon my body, that 
there may be discovered any malformation or hereditary malady, 
by means of which there can be employed the proper means to pre- 
vent their development among my descendants. I will that my body 
shall be utilized to the profit of the scientific idea which I have followed 
during my life, and to that end I bequeath my body, and notably my 
skull and brains, to the Laboratory of Anthropology, where it can be 
‘utilized in such mode as is believed to be best; and this is my wish 
spontaneously expressed. The portions of my body which are needed, 
after being used as aforesaid, are to be buried according to the usual 
method (or any other method may be indicated).”’ 
A tracing is given on the opposite page of the oleograph testament 
of General Faidherbe, who died lately. 
There are about 150 members of the Society of Autopsy. It has 
received the ministerial and legal authorization, and is now established 
upon a firm basis. The fees for membership are one dollar per year. 
The importance was early recognized by these gentlemen of know- 
ing everything concerning the physical and mental habits ; and life of 
the subject, and therefore he was requested to make as full a descrip- 
tion of himself and his physical and mental peculiarities as possible. 
His senses, sight, hearing, his understanding, his memory, was he a 
Visuaire or an auditaire,—that is, could he understand and comprehend 
the meaning of words best through the eye or through the ear. So 
also, any peculiarities of his sensations, of the powers of his mind, 
and any observations upon his temperament or character. 
The Laboratory of Anthropology has received several of the mem- 
bers of the Society of Autopsy, of which they have made dissection 
and investigation : 
1. Jules Assezat, literateur, died June 24th, 1876, of heart disease, 
2. Louis Asseline, literateur, died April, 1878, of rupture of the 
heart, aged forty-nine years. T 
3- Dr. Coudereau, died July roth, 1882, of woun 
tines, aged fifty years. ; 
4. Leon Gambetta, politician and 
1884, aged forty-three years. 
5. Dr. Adolphe Bertillon, professor, died March 1st, 1883, aged 
sixty-two years. 
6. Gillet-Vital, civil engineer, 
7- Sculptor Sauzel. 
8. General Faidherbe. 
ds of the intes- 
statesman, died December 31st, 
died 1887, aged sixty-three years. 
