Jean Philibert Damiron, a French eclectic philosopher, born at Belleville, May 10, 1794, died in Paris, Jan. 11, 1862. A pupil of the normal school, he taught literature and philosophy in provincial colleges, and was called to Paris, where he occupied a chair of philosophy in three of the principal colleges, and was finally appointed professor of philosophy in the faculty of letters. In 1836 he was elected to the academy of moral and political sciences, where he succeeded Destutt de Tracy. His works are: Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophic au XIXe siecle (1828); Cours de phi-losophie (1831), treating of psychology, logic, and morals; Essai sur l'histoire de la philosophic au XVIIe siecle (1846), giving a synopsis of the philosophical systems of Descartes, Gassen-di, Spinoza, Malebranche, Bossuet, and Fene-lon, and concluding with his own opinions; Memoir es pour servir a l'histoire de la philosophic du XVIIIe stecle (1857); Souvenirs de vingt ans d'enseignement d la faculte des lettres de Paris (1859); and Conscils adresses d des en-fants d^ouvriers et d leurs families (1861). He also edited Jouffroy's Nouveaux melanges, with an introductory notice, besides publishing a variety of miscellaneous philosophical memoirs, including sketches of Bayle, Leibnitz, Clarke, Helvetius, Diderot, and others.