à ce qu'il nous assure, as he assures us

5. M. Helmholtz (1821-1894), an able German physicist and physiologist born at Potsdam, near Berlin. He became professor of physiology at the University of Heidelberg in 1858, and in 1871 was called to the chair of physics in the University of Berlin.

6. Morse (1 791-1872), born at Charlestown, Mass. He was educated at Yale Collège, and became an inventor, painter, and author. His invention of the electric telegraph which made him famous was successfully brought before the public in 1844.

Page 182. — 1. Paul Lacour, a Danish physicist and meteorologist, born 1846.

2. Elisha Gray (1835-1901), born near Barnesville, Ohio, studied at Oberlin Collège, and lived later at Highland Park, near Chicago. As an electrician he was the inventor of important appliances.

3. Edison, the famous electrician and inventor, born at Milan, Ohio, in 1847; has resided recently at West Orange, New Jersey.

4. Varley (1 823-1 883), an English inventor; aided in the advance of telegraphy.

5. Malden, a manufacturing town just north of Boston, on the Boston and Maine Railroad.