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WE regret to learn that M. Joseph Liouville, the editor of the Journal de Mathematiques, died in Paris on September 7 at the age of seventy-six years. For some time back he had retired from his editorship and appointed M. Resal, a member of the Institute, as his successor. M. Liouville was born in St. Omer, admitted to the Polytechnic School in 1825, and appointed in 1829 an engineer of the Ponts-et-Chaussées. He soon resigned in order to devote himself entirely to the study of pure mathematies. He was elected in 1839 a member of the section of geometry in the Paris Academy. In 1848 he was sent by the electors of the Meurthe to the National Assembly, where he supported Arago's policy. In 1862 he was appointed a member of the Bureaux des Longitudes.