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CONTENTS

LAVOISIER
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Birth and Parentage—Education at Collège Mazarin—An Avocat—Nouvelle Chimie—Elected a Member of the Académie des Sciences—Introduction of the Balance in Chemical Research—Conservation of Matter—On Calcination—Voltaire's Scientific Work—Explains Combustion—Phlogistic Theory Overthrown—Definition of an Element—Fermier Général—Death Sentence—Prison—His Letter to Augez de Villers—Rejection of his Petition—Marseillaise and Ça Ira—Coffinhal—His Death—Robespierre's and Lamartine's Descriptions of Coffinhal—Carlyle on Lavoisier's Death—Place de la Concorde—Statue of Lavoisier 1
CUVIER
Birth and Parentage—Education—Private Tutor to the Family of the Comte d'Héricy—French Wars—Ossemens Fossiles—The Abbé Tessier—Professorship at the École Centrale—Classification of the Animal Kingdom—Discovery of Red Blood in Leeches—Professorships at the Collège de France and the Jardin des Plantes—Memoirs on Palæontology—Leçons d'Anatomie Comparée—Napoleon establishes Lycées—Secretaryship of the Académie des Sciences—His Honours—Règne Animal—Cuvier made an "Immortal" and a Baron—His Library—Histoire Naturelle des Poissons—La Petite Révolution—His Death His Grave in the Cimetière du Père la Chaise—Character—Correlation of Growth—Tertiary Mammals of France—His Zoological Researches—Fossil Forms 18
CAVENDISH
Birth and Parentage—Studies at Cambridge—Character and Habits—Cavendish House, Clapham—Weighs the Earth—Law of Inverse Squares—Electrical Resistance of Water—Most Eccentric Character

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