a country which gives its head or governor the denomination of a king.

REAUUMUR (Rene Antoine Ferchault de), a celebrated French philosopher, born of a good family at Rochelle in 1683. He early discovered a genius for mathematics and physics, which he went to Paris to improve; he was admitted a member of the academy of sciences in 1708, and justified their choice by his many observations in various branches of natural philosophy. His capital work was his History of Insects, 6 vols 4to. He died in 1757, in consequence of a fall; and left a great variety of papers and natural curiosities to the academy of sciences. He is represented as a man of most amiable qualities.