. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 300 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [AUGUST) JIEMOIR OF M. BOUVARD. Extracted from the Eloge delivered by M. ./Irago at the Funeral, JuneU, 1S43. M. Bouvard, one of the seniors of the Academy of Sciences, and the oldest member of the Board of Longitude, was born in 17G7, in a small village of the Alps, near St. Gervais and Chamouny. His parents were absolutely without fortune. At eighteen years of age, Bouvaid had only the tail of the plough before him, or a musko
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 300 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [AUGUST) JIEMOIR OF M. BOUVARD. Extracted from the Eloge delivered by M. ./Irago at the Funeral, JuneU, 1S43. M. Bouvard, one of the seniors of the Academy of Sciences, and the oldest member of the Board of Longitude, was born in 17G7, in a small village of the Alps, near St. Gervais and Chamouny. His parents were absolutely without fortune. At eighteen years of age, Bouvaid had only the tail of the plough before him, or a muskot in the Sardi- nian service, when he was luckily tempted to go to Paris. After some objections and misgivings, prompted by natural atfection, a small pursi was made up for him, and he walked up to Paris. It would be super- fluous to enumeriite the difficulties to be encountered by a young man without patrons, relations, or decided pursuit, and those feeble re- sources were rapidly exhausted. It is enough to say that if Bouvard did not get a dinner .-very day, no day did he fail to attend tlie gra- tuitous and public lectures at'the College de France. During several months he hesitated between Matht-maUcs and Surgery—^Mathematics carried the day, his progress was rapid, and becoming an assiduous auditor of Mauduit and Cousin, he soon had private pupils of his own, among whom he was pleased to reckon M. de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador in London, and General Demarcay. Chance made M. Bouvard a witness of the operations in the Observatory, and thence- forth sprang up a complete passion for astronomy, (neither is this term of passion inappropriate,) at a later period he was in an evi- dently feverish state oi, the approach of any celestial phenomena, •and the cloud which at the time of the eclipse of a star or satellite threatened to deprive him of the sight of the Moon or of Jupiter, threw him info despair. To the end of his life he related, with naire regret, the eircums
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