Julien-Joseph VIREY (1775-1846) naturalist. L.A.S., Paris August 4, 1841, to E. Pascallet, editor of the Biographe universel; 3 1/2 pages in-4. Long autobiographical letter. He mentions his birth in Hortes (Haute-Marne), his career as a medical officer and then as a doctor from 1814, his works and publications from his Histoire naturelle du genre humain in 1801 to his Philosophie de l'histoire naturelle in 1835, and his contributions to dictionaries and periodicals; his teaching at the Athénée Royal; his appointments to academies; his "philosophico-medical polemic against the materialistic opinions of the famous Broussais"; his work as a member of parliament; his scientific research, etc.