BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, JEAN BAPTISTE GEORGE MARIE, a French traveler and naturalist, was b. in 1780 at Agen, now in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. In 1798, he proceeded, along with mitt. Bandit!, in a scientific mission to New Holland, but separated from him before they reached their destination. On his return he wrote his ES8ai NUJ' les I7,es Fortunbs de l'antique Atlantide (Par. 1803); and his Voyage clans les quatre prineipales lles des .Mrs d' Afrique (Par.1804). Having joined the army, he served at Ulm and Austerlitz, and on Soult's staff in Spain. He served as a col, at Water loo, and afterwards had to retire to Belgium. At Brussels he edited, along. with Van Mons, the Annales des Sciences Physiques (8 vols.). He also produced an admirable work on the subterranean quarries in the limestone hills near Maastricht (Par. 1821). He returned to France in 1820, wrote for liberal journals, and for Courtin's Encyclopedic, etc. In 1827, appeared his L'Homme, Essai Zoologique sur le Genre humain. He wrote
what relates to cryptogamie plants in Duperrey's Voyage «71101(1* (Par. 1828). He rendered an important service to science by editing the Dictionnaire Classique de l'Histnire1Vaturelle. When, in 1829, the French government sent a scientific expedition 'to the Morea and the Cyclades, the first plaesj in it was assigned to B. de S. V.; and the results of his researches were given to the world in the Expedition Seientifique de Alm* (Par. and Strasb. 1832, etc.), and in the Nouvelle Fiore du Peloponnese et des Cyclades (Par. 1838). In 1839, he undertook the principal charge of the scientific commission which the French government sent to Algeria. He died 22d Dec., 1846.