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in America and the Caucasus—Honours—Mendeléeff and Tolstoi—Miss Ellison Quoted—Death—The Czar's Telegram—Menschutkin's Sudden Death—Siberia and its Cruelties—Gorky Quoted |
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| BUFFON | |
| Birth—His Wealth—Tour de St Louis—Remarks of Rousseau and Prince Henry of Prussia on the Tour de St Louis—The Sorbonne—His Recantation of "Heresy"—Mr Gladstone on Evolution—Histoire Naturelle—Époques de la Nature—Father of the Modern Evolutionist—Mirabeau, Rousseau, Diderot, Voltaire, and others praised Buffon's Style—His Character—Newton's Fluxions—Paved the Way for the Doctrine of Descent—Action of the Environment—Lowell Quoted—Buffon and Modern Evolution—His Vanity—Elected a Member of the Académie des Science—Directorship of the Jardin des Plantes—Théorie de la Terre—Comte de Saporta Quoted—Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux—Histoire des Minéraux—Death—Burial in Père la Chaise—His Grave Desecrated during the Reign of Terror—Huxley's Appreciation of Buffon—Saint-Hilaire on Linnæus and Buffon | 137 |
| BERTHELOT | |
| Birth and Parentage—Educated at Lycée Henri IV.—Préparateur at the Collège de France—His Thesis and Degree—Elected Professor of Chemistry in the École de Pharmacie—Professorship at the Collège de France—Founder of Organic Synthesis—Poincaré Quoted—His Work on Thermo-chemistry—Awarded the Jecker Prize—The Era of Berthelot—Acetylene—Methane—Value of Chemistry—Aerial Navigation—Proved the Alcoholic Nature of Glycerine—Chimie Organique fondée sur la Synthèse—Essai de Mechanique Chimique fondée sur la Thermo-chimie—Berthelot's Laws—Berthelot's Agricultural Station and Investigations—His Books—Secretaryship of the Académie des Sciences—Elected a Member of the Académie Française—The Institut de France—President of the Scientific Committee of National Defence during the Siege of Paris—Sur la force des Matières Explosives—His Various Writings—A Member of the Cabinets of Goblet and Bourgeois—Friend of England—Russia's Jealousy—The Boer War, the German Emperor and Berthelot—Berthelot's Memory—Madame Berthelot—Berthelot's Kindness to Scientific Men—Honours—His Scientific Jubilee—The Sorbonne—His Historical Books—The Société Alchimique de France—The Finale—Berthelot and His Wife Die Together—Both Buried in the Panthéon—Berthelot and the Bodies of Voltaire and Rousseau | 146 |
