COMMITTEE. Chairman-LORD BROUGHAM, F.R.S., Mem. of the Nat. Inst. of France. W. Allen, Esq. F.R. and R.A.S. Lord Campbell. Professor Carey, A.M. Sir Henry De la Beche, F. R.S. Samuel Duckworth, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S. T. F. Ellis, Esq. A. M., F.R. A.S. Thomas Falconer, Esq. John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S. Sir I. L. Goldsmid, Bart., F. R. and R. A.S. Francis Henry Goldsmid, Esq. B. Gompertz, Esq., F. R. and R.A.S. G. B. Greenough, Esq., F.R. and L.S. Rowland Hill, Esq., F. R. A.S. - The Rt. Hon. Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Bart., M.P. Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. David Jardine, Esq., A. M. Professor Key, A.M. John G. S. Lefevre, Esq., A.M. The Rt. Hon. Stephen Lushington, D.C.L. A. T. Malkin, Esq., A. M. Mr. Serjeant Manning. R. I. Murchison, Esq. F.R.S. P.G.S. W. Smith O'Brien, Esq., M. P. Professor Quain. P. M. Roget, M.D., Sec. R. S., F.R. A.S. R. W. Rothman, Esq., A. M. Sir Martin A. Shee, P. R. A., F.R.S. Sir G. T. Staunton, Bart., M. P. John Taylor, Esq., F. R.S. Professor A. T. Thomson, M.D. Jacob Waley, Esq., A. M. James Walker, Esq., F.R.S., P. Inst. Civ. Henry Waymouth, Esq. Thomas Webster, Esq., A. M. Lord Wrottesley, A. M., F. R. A.S. THOMAS COATES, Esq., Secretary, 42. Bedford Square. 1 LONDON: Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE, ANTELMI or ANTHELMI, NICOLAS, canon of Fréjus in the early part of The year and the seventeenth century. place of his birth are not given. He was syndic of the clergy of the diocese of Fréjus, and appeared in that character in the assemblies of the French clergy at Paris, He exerted himself A. D. 1605 and 1606. with the greatest diligence, at considerable pecuniary cost, and sometimes at the risk of his life, in seeking out and recovering the documents belonging to the archives of the cathedral of Fréjus. He recovered a great number of valuable records, and arranged The antiquarian them in two volumes. knowledge and zeal which he manifested recommended him to the friendship of the antiquary Peiresc, with whom he carried on an active correspondence on différent questions connected with their common pursuit. He furnished the list of the bishops of Fréjus to the authors of the "Gallia Christiana,' who have passed a high encomium on the talent and skill of Antelmi. Nicolas Antelmi died 2d March, A. D. 1646. Joseph Antelmi in his treatise "De Initiis Ecclesiæ Forojuliensis" refers to the " Adversaria" of Nicolas Antelmi; but it does not appear that this work was ever published. (Joseph Antelmi, Preface to De Initiis Ecclesiæ Forojuliensis) fore the death of the former. At the desire ANTELMUS, SAINT. ANTELMI or ANTHELMI, PIERRE, SAINT.] ANTELMY, PIERRE THOMAS D', was born at Trigance in Provence, on the 14th of September, 1730. Having gone through his preliminary studies, he applied himself to mathematics, and became professor of mathematics, and afterwards inspector of studies, at the military school at Paris. The newly erected observatory at the military school was also confided to his care; and many of his observations have been published in the Transactions of the Académie des Sciences. He B |