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ONE of the brightest lights in the geological department of French science has been extinguished by the death of Prof. Daubrée, who has passed away at the ripe old age of eight-two years. Born at Metz on June 25, 1814, he earty devoted himself to minerals and rocks, and from the Ecole Polytechnique passed in 1834 into the Corps des Mines. In these early years he paid visits to the mining districts of different parts of Europe, and communicated papers on his observations to the Geological Society of France, the Annales des Mines, and the Comptesrendus of the Academy of Sciences. He already began to display that breath of view and width of sympathy which distinguished his career, for, while studying minutely the mineral districts of Scandinavia, he devoted much time and thought to the erratic formations then beginning to attract attention, and published his views regarding them. Gradually his attention was more and more directed to the experimental side of his favourite science. He studied the artificial production of various minerals, and entered upon a course of profound investigation in which he became the great leader, and did more than any other observer to advance that department of the science.
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G., A. Professor Daubrée. Nature 54, 132–133 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054132a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054132a0