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cannot be shaken by casual illness, and 

 we may look to her speedily taking the 

 lead again. 



Poole brings out immediately his trans- 

 lation, which had been superseded by 

 Kenny's. The title is nearly the same, 

 The Wealthy Widow ;" probably with 

 the same intentional allusion; we will 

 hope with the same success. 



" Alfred," a musical melo-drame, is 

 about to appear at Govent Garden. 



The English Theatre in Paris, contrary 

 to all expectation, is likely to succeed. 

 Abbot's intelligence and good manners 



make him highly adapted for a manager. 

 A succession of English tragedies and 

 comedies are rapidly brought out : to the 

 French they are all new; and popular 

 caprice, the goddess of the Parisians, 

 carries all the world to be enraptured. 

 . On the whole, the only performance 

 which has attracted even a brief popula- 

 rity, has been "The Thirty Years of a 

 Gambler's Life ;" a frightful exhibition of 

 the misery and ruin in which this atrocious 

 vice plunges its victims. It has powerful 

 parts, but is too painful for the stage. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



INSTITUTE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Paris. July 23. M. Arago, in the name 

 of a commission charged to consider the 

 means of executing the regulations regard- 

 ing steam-engines, communicated the expe- 

 riments made on the subject. M. Girard 

 detailed the circumstances of the explosion 

 of a low pressure engine at Amiens. Se- 

 veral .experiments, instituted by M. Dulanie, 

 on brome, were stated by M. Arago. M. 

 Cordier concluded his memoir on the inter- 

 nal temperature of the. earth. M. Ampere 

 presented many observations on this me- 

 moir, and objections against the hypothesis 

 which forms its base. M. Dutrochet read 

 some new observations on endormoris and 

 exormoris, and on the cause of this double 

 phenomenon. 30. M. Thenard read a re- 

 port on part of the M SS. forwarded by the 

 minister of the interior, and acquired by the 

 death of M. Preineck, a Prussian, who died 

 at Amiens : they were considered not worth 

 the expense of printing. M. de Petit-Thou- 

 ars made a verbal report on an agricultural 

 dictionary offered to the Academy, and 

 presented some claims to what his own re- 

 searches had established. August 6. M. 

 Young was elected foreign member of the 

 Academy, in the place of the late M. Volta. 

 M. G. St. Hilaire exhibited a plaster mask, 

 modelled on the face of a man for whom 

 Dr. Delpech had made an artificial nose. 

 This operation was performed in Italy, in 

 the sixteenth century; then abandoned and 

 renewed in England, after the manner of 

 some savage nations ; and lately recom- 

 menced in France, by Dr. Delpech, who had 

 succeeded in affording regularity to the fea- 



tures. M. G. St. Hilaire presented the head 

 of a young cameleopard, from which it 

 was evident that, during its earlier years, the 

 osseous germ of the horn is separated from 

 the forehead by a distinct secture, like the 

 antlers of a stag immediately before they 

 are shed ; and offered some remarks on the 

 subject : among others, that, on the horns 

 of the adult giraffe, some tuberosities may 

 be seen, which evidently stand in the place 

 of the antlers of the stag. M. de Candolle 

 read a memoir on the family of the " No- 

 dastomees/' M. Stanisles Julien was elected 

 sublibrarian. MM. Molard and Navier re- 

 ported on M. Contfs machines, called . a 

 " Tachygraph and Tachytype.'' The first 

 of these pieces of mechanism is designed 

 to print with as much rapidity as words are 

 delivered in ordinary speaking : the cost of 

 its construction is estimated at 600 francs 

 (about tAventy-five pounds sterling) ; and it 

 was recommended to be undertaken at the 

 expense of the Academy. 30. M. de Frey- 

 cinet made a report on the work of M. 

 Adrien Balbi, entitled, " Introduction to an 

 Ethnographic Atlas of the Globe, or Classi- 

 fication, of the ancient and modern People, 

 according to their Languages, applied to 

 many Branches of Human Knowledge." 

 M. Chevreul read a note on the discovery 

 of the photenic acid in the orcanette (litho-^ 

 spernum tinetorium). M. G. St. Hilaire 

 read a memoir on a horse, which had toes 

 separated by membranes. M. Silvestre read 

 a report on the second edition of a work by 

 M. Francceur, entitled, " Instruction ia 

 Linear Drawing." 



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