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BIOGRAPHIES
OF
DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIFIC MEN.
BY FRANCOIS ARAGO,
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE.
TRANSLATED BY
ADMIRAL W.H. SMYTH, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c.
THE REV. BADEN POWELL, M.A., F.R.S., &c.
AND
ROBERT GRANT, Esq., M.A., F.R.A.S.
FIRST SERIES.
BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
M DCCC LIX.


RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
PRINTED BY H.O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.


TRANSLATORS' PREFACE.

The present volume of the series of English translations of M. Arago's
works consists of his own autobiography and a selection of some of his
memoirs of eminent scientific men, both continental and British.
It does not distinctly appear at what period of his life Arago composed
the autobiography, but it bears throughout the characteristic stamp of
his ardent and energetic disposition. The reader will, perhaps, hardly
suppress a smile at the indications of self-satisfaction with which
several of the incidents are brought forward, while the air of romance
which invests some of the adventures may possibly give rise to some
suspicion of occasional embellishment; on these points, however, we
leave each reader to judge for himself.
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