. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. prosecuted numerous chemicaland physiological investigations. In 1839 he was chosen professorof chemistry and natural history in oneof the de
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. prosecuted numerous chemicaland physiological investigations. In 1839 he was chosen professorof chemistry and natural history in oneof the departments of the university ofthe city of New York, where he alsolectured to the under-graduates onphysiology. In 1841 lie was advancedto the chair of chemistry in the medicalcollege of the university, and after-wards became president of both thescientific and medical departments ofthat institution. He wrote voluminous-ly concerning his Bcientific researches,and by them attained a high reputationas a scientist. Among his importantdiscoveries was one, in 1842, of a pecu-liar property or force in that portion ofthe suns rays which produces the chem-ical effects shown in the art of photo-graphy, now known as* actinism. ItIb also claimed for Dr. Draper that he wasthe first to apply the daguerreotype pro-cess to taking portraits. He also pub-lished numerous books of literary char-acter. Died, January 4, 18S2. AUGUSTE COMTE. y^/HE of tht- \». itivc phi-losophy and the * religion of humanity, Auguste Comte, was born at Monlpellier, France, in1798. He entered the polytechnic school in 1814, and becarae a dis-ciple of the social reformer, St. Simon, about 1818. Six years laterthey separated, mutually disgusted. Before 1824 Comte discoveredhis law of social evolution, and during the next twenty years heperfected his system of Positive Philosophy, publishing itbetween 1832-42. The *Religion of Humanity appeared at a laterdate. He died in 1857, at Paris. The positive i)hilosophy
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