Edme Francois Jomard, a French geographer, born in Versailles, Nov. 20, 1777, died Sept. 22, 1862. He was a member of the Egyptian scientific commission in 1798, distinguishing himself by his successful researches, and was afterward appointed secretary of the commission to prepare the Description de l'Egypte, and in 1807 superintendent of the engraving and printing of that work, to which he devoted 18 years. He participated in 1821 in the establishment of the geographical society. In 1828, on the organization of the new department of geography and travels in the royal library, he received the appointment of con-servateur administrateur. Being held in great esteem by Mehemet Ali, he persuaded the pasha to send a number of young Egyptians to study in Paris. These young men formed what was called the institut dcs Egyptiem, placed under the direction of Jomard. As a reward for his services, the successor of Mehemet Ali appointed him his scientific correspondent, and granted him the honorary title of bey. His numerous publications are all devoted to geography, archaeology, or public education.

Besides his contributions to the great work of the Egyptian commission, which he printed separately, under the title of Recueil d'obser-vations et de memoires sur l'Egypte ancienne et moderne (4 vols. 8vo, Paris, 1830), his most important publications are: Voyage a l'oasis de Syouah (1819), from the notes of the travellers Caillaud and Drovetti; Remarques sur les rapports de l'Ethiopie et de l'Egypte, etc. (1822); Apercus et coups d'oeil sur les nouvelles decouvertes dans l'Afrique centrale (1824-'7); Observations sur le voyage au Darfour (1845); Classification methodique des produits de l'in-dustrie extra-europeenne (1862); and Les monuments de la geographie (1862), a collection of ancient charts of Europe and the Orient, reproduced in facsimile.