The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

NUMISMATIC SOCIETY.
From this brief review it will be seen that we have, during
the past year, ranged over a wide area, and have gathered a more
or less abundant harvest in different fields of research. I need
now but express a hope that at the end of the year on which
we are just entering we may have to record results at least as
satisfactory.
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Turning now to the more melancholy duty of saying a few
words as to those of our members whom we have lost by death,
I must first refer to our distinguished honorary members, M. F.
de Saulcy and M. Ferdinan'd Bompois.
Monsieur Francois Caignard de Saulcy, Member of the Insti-
tute, was born at Lille, in the year 1807, and after passing through
the fccole Polytechnique, entered the artillery, of which he
eventually became a chef d'escadron. His numismatic tastes
must have commenced in early life, for in 1836 he published his
" Essai sur la Classification des Monnaies byzantines," for
which he obtained the Prix de Nuinismatique of the French
Academie des Inscriptions. He subsequently was appointed
Conservator of the Musee d'Artillerie, and in 1842, on the death
of Mionnet, he became a Member of the Institute. In 1850
he visited Palestine, and there gathered the collections which
formed the basis of his well-known work on Jewish numismatics.
He had, however, long been at work in other branches of the
science, and the pages of the " Revue Numismatique," from its
commencement in 1836 until its close, and those of the sub-
sequent " Annuaire de Nuraismatique," are replete with essays
from his pen. Altogether his works, including essays and
minor publications, are not less than three hundred in number.
Byzantine, Arab, Spanish, and Phoenician coins, as well as those
of the Crusaders, of Lorraine and of the French Revolution in
1848, in turn engaged his pen, which from time to time was
also busied on other a: chseological and epigraphic subj ects. Of late
years he had been principally engaged on the coins of the French
Kings, but probably the researches in connection with which his
name will be best known to posterity are those on the coinage of
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