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  "ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PARIS.--The vacant sub-professorship of chemistryhas been offered, we are rejoiced to hear, to a gentleman whose modestyhas hitherto prevented his scientific merits from becoming sufficientlyprominent in the world. To the members of the academy he hasbeen long since known as the originator of some of the mostremarkable improvements in chemistry which have been made of lateyears--improvements, the credit of which he has, with rare, and we werealmost about to add, culpable moderation, allowed others to profit bywith impunity. No man in any profession is more thoroughly entitled tohave a position of trust and distinction conferred on him by the Statethan the gentleman to whom we refer--M. Louis Trudaine."