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LIFE OF MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY.
several years, being himself a learned man and President of the Boyal and Astronomical Societies.
On this trip we visited many cities in England, France, Holland, Belgium, and Germany with my father, and we were fêted and entertained everywhere. We were so proud to be introduced by him to such men as Baron Humboldt, Erenburg, Jansen, Quetelet, Le Verrier, Lieber, FitzRoy, and others.
