Mathematical 

 Sciences - 



Phyfical Sci- 

 ences - - 



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The feclions fhall be compofed and called as follows : ^ew organiza- 



Geometry - - - - 6 members, tion of the 

 Mechanics - 6 ditto. French inftitu*; 



Aftronomy - 6 ditto. 



Geography and Navigation - 3 ditto. 

 „ General Phyfics - - - 6 ditto. 



-.Chemiftry - 6 members. 



Mineralogy - - - - 6 ditto. 

 Botany . . - - 6 ditto. 



Rural Economy and Veterinary Art 6 ditto. 

 Anatomy and Zoology - - 6 ditto. 

 *- Medicine and Surgery - - 6 ditto. 

 The firft clafs fhall appoint, with the approbation of the 

 Firft Conful, two perpetual fecretaries, one for the mathema- 

 tical fciences, the other for the phyfical fciences. The per- 

 petual fecretaries fhall be members of the clafs, but (ball not 

 form a part of any fection. 



The firft clafs may elect fix of its members from the other 

 claffes of the inftitute. 



It may name an hundred correfpondents felected from the 

 learned men of France and foreign countries. 



III. The fecond clafs fhall be compofed of forty members. 

 It is particularly charged with the compofition of the 



dictionary of the French language. It fhall examine with 

 refpect to language, the important works of literature, hiftory 

 and the fciences. The collection of its critical obfervations 

 fhall be publifhed at leaft, four times in a year. 



It fhall name from its own body, and with the approbation 

 of the Firft Conful, a perpetual fecretary, who fhall continue 

 to be of the number of the forty members which compofe it. 



It may elect twelve of its members from the other dafTes of 

 the inflitute. 



IV. The third clafs fhall be compofed of forty members and 

 eight foreign alTociates. 



The objects of its refearches and laboucs fhall be learned 

 languages; antiquities and monuments; hiftory and all the 

 moral and political fciences connected with hiftory. It fhall 

 particularly apply itfelf to the enriching of French literature 

 with the works of Greek, Latin and Oriental authors, which 

 have not yet been tranflated. 



It fhall employ itfelf in the continuation of diplomatic col- 

 lections. 



It 



