Becomingness

Congruity; state or quality of being fit, appropriate, or becoming. Becquerel, (bek'ker-el,) ANTOINE CÉSAR, an eminent French physician, and member of the Institute; в. 1788. In early life he served in the French army in Spain as an officer of Engineers. In 1815, he resigned his commi ion as "chef de bataillon" of the Engineers, and devoted himself to scientific pursuits. In 1829, В. became Profe or of Physics in the Museum of Natural History. He has been a voluminous writer on chemistry and electricity, and his industry in the collecting of facts is very remarkable. His principal works are, Traité de l' Electric ité et du Magnétis me (Paris, 1834-40); Traité d' Electro-Chimie; Traité de Physique appliquée à la Chimie et aux Sciences Naturelles; Eléments de Physique terrestre et de Météorologie (1847); and Traité de l'Electric ité et du Magnétis me (1855). He invented a new psychometer in 1866. D. Jan. 1878.