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form the histery and a comparative table of the different systems of 

 coins, weights, and measures, in the principal countries of the world, 

 to be afterward translated and printed by the committees into the 

 languages of all the countries represented in the Association. 



2. That for this object, and to secure the perfect correctness of the 

 work, the different committees composing the Association are re- 

 quested beforehand to furnish all the information in their power 

 relative to the coins, weights, and measures, of the country to which 

 they belong, with the calculation of them on the metrical system, as 

 a term of general comparison. > 



3. That each committee, in the country where it is constituted, 

 shall employ all the means in its power, particularly those offered by 

 the local press, to enlighten public opinion, and prepare for the meet- 

 ing of an efficient International Congress, charged to solve the problem 

 which constitutes the object of the Association. 



4. That until such a congress shall be convoked, the members of 

 the committee shall use all their efforts in order that, in the calcula- 

 tions and statistical tables, the value of the coins, weights, and meas- 

 ures, shall be accompanied by their reduction into coins, weights, and 

 measures on the metrical system, in order to have a point of compari- 

 son common to all nations. 



It was also resolved that a permanent International Committee 

 should be immediately constituted at Paris, to be composed, as much 

 as possible, of members of each of the countries represented in the 

 Association. 



The Council of the Royal Society has awarded the Copley Medal 

 this year to M. Leon Foucault, for his various researches in Experi- 

 mental Physics; and the two Royal Medals to Mr. John Russell Hind, 

 for his discovery of ten Planetoids, the computation of their orbits, 

 and various other astronomical discoveries ; and to J. O. Westwood, 

 Esq., President of the Entomological Society, for his various mono- 

 graphs and papers on Entomology. 



The King of Prussia has presented a gold medal to Lieutenant 

 Maury, U. S. 1ST., on account of " the distinguished services which he 

 has rendered to science and navigation by his labors in ascertaining 

 the currents and depths of the ocean, and in determining the direction 

 of the winds at different seasons and in different latitudes." This 

 mark of distinction was also accompanied with the presentation of 

 one of the gold medals struck in honor of the publication of Baron 

 Humboldt's "Cosmos." 



The Emperor of France has given 40,000 francs for the purpose of 

 founding a new laboratory in connection with the High Normal 

 School in Paris. It will be placed under the direction of M. Sainte- 



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