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M. Cauchy, a few years previously President of the Chamber of the Royal Court of Paris, an amiable man and easily frightened, was the brother of the mathematician, member of the Institute, to whom we owe the computation of waves of sound, and of the ex-Registrar Archivist of the Chamber of Peers. The first Assistant, M. Grandet, had been President of the Chamber at Paris.
But, on the reason for his taking his seat being pointed out, Davis was recommended for promotion. In countersigning the papers entitling him to the rank of gunner, at a thousand a year for life, the President mock-solemnly observed: "Metaphorically, we occupy the same position; we are sitting on the powder under fire!" Ex-Registrar Chittenden tells the following incident.
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