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103 Member of this College; called by the present patriotic Sovereign of France, to take part in his Councils, and whose transcendent labours in Comparative Anatomy, have obtained him universal fame. We hail also with delight the numerous discoveries of other celebrated individuals and societies, both at home and abroad in this and other departments of natural knowledge, which all combine to. throw light on that which we are most engaged to study and improve. For the sciences are like the stars in the firmament; though each is most brilliant and most useful in its own peculiar sphere, yet in its measure it illumines, and is illumined by, all those which surround it.

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