ministers who have
begun their career in the inquiries of pure analysis. As such examples
are perhaps more frequent than is generally imagined, it may be useful
to mention a few of those men of science who have formerly held, or who
now hold, high official stations in the governments of their respective
countries.

Country. Name. Department of Public Office.
Science.

France.. Marquis Laplace(1) Mathematics President of the
Conservative
Senate.

France.. M.Carnot Mathematics Minister of War.

France.. Count Chaptal(2) Chemistry Minister of the
Interior.

France.. Baron Cuvier(3) Comparative Minister of
Anatomy, Public
History Instruction

Prussia.. Baron Humboldt Oriental Ambassador
Languages to England

Prussia.. Baron Alexander The celebrated Chamberlain to
Humboldt Traveller the King of
Prussia

Modena. Marquis Rangoni(4) Mathematics Minister of
Finance and
of Public
Instruction,
President of
Italian Academy
of Forty.

Tuscany. Count Fossombroni Mathematics Prime Minister
(5) of the Grand Duke
of Tuscany.

Saxony.. M. Lindenau(6) Astronomy Ambassador.

(1) Author of the MECANIQUE COELESTE.
(2) Author of TRAITE DE CHIMIE APPLIQUE AUX ARTS.
(3) Author of LECONS D'ANATOMIE COMPAREE--RECHERCHES SUR OSSEMENS
FOSSILES &c. &c.
(4) Author of MEMORIA SULLE FUNZIONI GENERATRICI, Modena, 1824,
and of various other memoirs on mathematical subjects.
(5) Author of several memoirs on mechanics and hydraulics, in the
Transactions of the Academy of Forty.
(6) Author of TABLES BAROMETRIQUES, Gotha, 1809--TABULAE VENERIS,
NOVAE ET C