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selves with little. Labour occupies all my time and all my 
faculties. My happiness does not depend on having a little 
more leisure ; and I should have very little change to make in 
my personal habits.” 
At the creation of the Legion of Honour, M. Delambre was 
made a member of that order. He was appointed Chevalier of 
St Michael in 1817 ; an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 
1821 ; and a long time before he was created a Hereditary 
Chevalier, with a dotation, which was decreed as a national re- 
ward. 
In the midst of these honours, Delambre was carried off from 
his friends on the 19th of August 1822, in the seventy-third 
year of his age. An eloge, full of eloquence and fine feeling, 
was pronounced over his tomb by Baron Cuvier, in the name 
of the Institute; and a similar mark of respect was paid to his 
memory by the College of France and the Board of Longi- 
tude. 
His place in the Institute, as Perpetual Secretary of the Aca- 
demy of Sciences, has been filled by an eminent philosopher 
Baron Fourrier, formerly Secretary to the Egyptian Institute, 
author of the Mathematical Theory of Heat , and of the In- 
troductory Preface to the great work on the Description of 
Egypt- 
The great extent of the labours of Delambre will be seen 
from the list of his writings which accompanies this notice ; but 
the full value of them can only be appreciated by those who are 
profoundly acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. 
The services which he rendered to astronomical science, though 
not gilded with any brilliant discovery, possess a value far be- 
yond those which are characterised principally by their novelty. 
His Tables of the Sun, and those of Saturn, the Georgium Si- 
dus, and Jupiter and his Satellites, are the result of immense 
labour, and are marked with a degree of precision far beyond 
the expectations of the most sanguine astronomer. His Traite 
d' Astronomie Theorique et Pratique , in three volumes, and his 
Histoire de V Astronomie Ancienne , in two volumes, his Histoire 
de V Astronomie du Moyen Age , in one volume, and the two 
first volumes of his Histoire de V Astronomie Moderne , are works 
