Alfred Joseph Naquet, a French chemist, born in Carpentras, Oct. 6, 1834. He completed his studies in Paris, where he took his medical degree in 1859. In August, 1863, he was named professor at the school of medicine, to enter upon his duties in November, 1865. In the interval he was employed by the Italian government in establishing a professorship of chemical and physical sciences in the national technical institute at Palermo. After lecturing on organic chemistry in the medical faculty of Paris till 1867, he incurred 15 months1 imprisonment and a fine for having been one of the organizers of the congress at Geneva, and having submitted to it a resolution calling the first Napoleon the greatest malefactor of his day. In March, 1869, he was again arrested and fined on account of his opposing the rites of marriage (his own marriage had been celebrated in 1862 without the attendance of a clergyman) in his publication entitled Religion, propriété famille, in which however he defended the rights of property. After the revolution of Sept. 4, 1870, he was military secretary to the government at Tours and Bordeaux. His election to the assembly, Feb. 8, 1871, being contested by the monarchists, he was reelected, July 2, by a large majority.

Among his scientific works are: Prinzes de cliimie fondes sur les theories modernes (1865); De l'atomicite (1868); and Precis de cliimie legale (1872). His chief political work is La republique radicate (1873).