His _Vermischte Schriften_ appeared in 3 vols. (1815). The _Briefe über Merkwürdigkeiten der Literatur_ were republished by A. von Weilen (1888), and a selection of his poetry, including _Ugolino_, by R. Hamel, will be found in Kürschner's _Deutsche Nationalliteratur_, vol. 48 (1884). GÉRUZEZ, NICOLAS EUGÈNE (1799-1865), French critic, was born on the 6th of January 1799 at Reims. He was assistant professor at the Sorbonne, and in 1852 he became secretary to the faculty of literature. He wrote a _Histoire de l'éloquence politique et religieuse en France aux XIV^e, XV^e, et XVI^e siècles_ (1837-1838); an admirable _Histoire de la littérature française depuis les origines jusqu'à la Révolution_ (1852), which he supplemented in 1859 by a volume bringing down the history to the close of the revolutionary period; and some miscellaneous works. Géruzez died on the 29th of May 1865 in Paris. A posthumous volume of _Mélanges et pensées_ appeared in 1877. GERVAIS, PAUL (1816-1879), French palaeontologist, was born on the 26th of September 1816 at Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of doctor of science and of medicine, and in 1835 he began palaeontological research as assistant in the laboratory of comparative anatomy at the Museum of Natural History. In 1841 he obtained the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy at the Faculty of Sciences in Montpellier, of which he was in 1856 appointed dean. In 1848-1852 appeared his important work _Zoologie et paléontologie françaises_, supplementary to the palaeontological publications of G. Cuvier and H. M. D. de Blainville; of this a second and greatly improved edition was issued in 1859. In 1865 he accepted the professorship of zoology at the Sorbonne, vacant through the death of L. P. Gratiolet; this post he left in 1868 for the chair of comparative anatomy at the Paris museum of natural history, the anatomical collections of which were greatly enriched by his exertions. He died in Paris on the 10th of February 1879. He also wrote _Histoire naturelle des mammifères_ (1853, &c.); _Zoologie médicale_ (1859, with P. J. van Beneden); _Recherches sur l'ancienneté de l'homme et la période quaternaire_, 19 pl. (1867); _Zoologie et paléontologie générales_ (1867); _Ostéographie des cétacés_ (1869, &., with van Beneden).