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| Country. | Name. | Department of Science. | Public Office. |
| 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 Anatomy, Natural History | Minister of Public Instruction. |
| Prussia. . | Baron Humboldt. | Oriental languages | Ambassador to England. |
| Prussia. . | Baron Alexander Humboldt | The celebrated Traveller | Chamberlain to the King of Prussia. |
| Modena . | Marquis Rangoni[4] | Mathematics . | Minister of Finance and of Public Instruction, President of the Italian Academy of Forty. |
| Tuscany . | Count Fossombroni[5] | Mathematics . | Prime Minister of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. |
| Saxony . . | M. Lindenau[6] . . | Astronomy . . | Ambassador. |
- ↑ Author of the Mecanique Cœleste.
- ↑ Author of Traité de Chimic Appliqué aux Arts.
- ↑ Author of Leçons d' Anatomie Comparée—Récherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles, &c. &c.
- ↑ Author of Memoria sulle Funzioni Generatrici, Modena, 1824, and of various other memoirs on mathematical subjects.
- ↑ Author of several memoirs on mechanics and hydraulics, in the Transactions of the Academy of Forty.
- ↑ Author of Tables Barometriques, Gotha, 1809—Tabulæ Veneris, novæ et correctæ, Gothæ, 1810—Investigatio Nova Orbitæ a Mercurio circa Solem descriptæ, Gothæ, 1813, and of other works.
