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STUDENTS of agricultural chemistry have received with much regret the tidings of the death of M. Boussingault, on of the earliest and most eminent in vestigators in this branch of science. He was born at Paris on February 2, 1802, and obtained his scientific education at the School of Mines of St. Étienne. When little more than twenty years of age, he went as a mining engineer to Columbia, South America, where he remained ten years. During his residence in South America he made the acquaintance of Alexander von Hutnboldt, who warmly praised his work in chemistry, meteorology, geography, and astronomy. On his return to France, M. Boussingault was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Lyons. He married the sister of M. Lebel, who had been his fellow student at St. Étienne, and by his marriage he became, with his brother-in-law, joint proprietor of the estate of Bechelbronn, in Alsace. Here he set up the first laboratory that had ever been established on a farm, and carried on a long series of important researches.
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M. Boussingault . Nature 36, 134–135 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036134a0
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