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 board the Fury at the time of her loss, the trauscripts of his results could not be recomputed like the rest, and were consequently useless.

Although the number of situations to which persons conversant with science may hope to be appointed, is small, yet it has somewhat singularly happened, that instances of one individual, holding more than one such appointment, are frequent. Not to speak of those held by the late Dr. Young, we have at present:—

One should be led to imagine, from these unions of scientific offices, either that science is