art of representing in his drawings the forms of organic tissues in a style peculiar to himself.  His last course of lectures, on the History of the Natural Sciences, and on the Philosophy of Natural History, delivered at the College of France, is now publishing in livraisons, and will extend to three or four vols, 8vo.  This work, however, we believe, has been published without his consent or revision.  His memory was prodigious, and he scarcely knew what it was to forget anything.  Although his great powers were more particularly devoted to natural history, no part of science was a stranger to him, and his taste for literature and works of imagination was particularly refined and elegant.  In his Eloges of illustrious men, delivered in his capacity of perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences, he always displays the utmost impartiality and love of truth; he never debased the dignity of science by any love of intrigue, and displayed the utmost disinterestedness in his efforts to promote science.  The qualities of his heart were not less estimable than those of his head, and he possessed the happy art of inspiring his friends with an unalterable attachment.  His conversation was varied and animated, adapted by turns to every subject, and he may truly be said to have been the grace and ornament of society.  We must not forget the great services he rendered to public education as head of the University; his Report on the State of Primary Education in Holland is a lasting monument of his solicitude for the education of the people, and all those who have observed his conduct with regard to the higher branches of education, know how constantly his influence was directed to favour their progress and to remove obstacles.  In other departments of the civil service into which he was successively called, as Master of Requests, Counsellor of State, President of the Section of the Interior, Director of Protestant Worship, (for he was an enlightened and liberal Protestant, and watched over the interests of his co-religionists with constant solicitude,) and at last as a Peer of France—­in all these he displayed the same superiority of talent.  The office of Censor of the Press, which was offered to him, he, to his eternal honour, refused.  Such was the man whose loss the world has now to deplore:  but the mind that traced her age and history—­in the wrecks of ages dug from her bosom—­will live for ever in his works to enlighten and instruct mankind.—­Foreign Quarterly Review.

Cuvier is said to have died of a paralytic affection of the oesophagus.  His body was examined by several eminent pathologists:  his brain is stated to have presented a mass of extraordinary volume, weighing three pounds thirteen and a half ounces; a fact which will be treasured up by contemporary phrenologists as evidence of Cuvier’s great intellectual capabilities.

[Cuvier was Professor of Geology in the College of France.  The chair, vacant by his death, has just been filled by the appointment of M. Elie Beaumont, celebrated for his investigation of mountain formations.]