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CONGRES SCIENTIFIQUE. 



The third meeting of the Congrfo Scientifiques is to be held at 

 Douay on the 6th inst. The following extract from a letter with 

 which we have been favoured by a friend, now in France, will give 

 our readers fuller information on the subject. 



"Their first meeting, at Caen, appears to have been very similar in 

 its plan and objects to the meetings of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. I have not seen the account of the 

 second meeting, which was held last year at Poitiers. M. Caumont 

 (who has taken a very active part in the formation of the Congres 

 Scientifiques of the French, and has indeed done for them what Mr. 

 W. V. Harcourt did for us,) expressed a very strong desire that the 

 English savans should meet them at Douay; and one of my objects 

 in writing is to request you to put a notice of the meeting in your 

 Journal for next month. It mil be commenced at noon, September 

 6th, in the Palais de la Cour Royale, Douay. I should be glad, if 

 you could give the information to any of the friends of science in 

 our country who might be likely to attend. Douay is only a very 

 easy day's journey from Calais. 



" Supposing that the French have, as we have, a permanent 

 council, or any permanent officers, we and they may assist each 

 other in the following particulars. That the members or officers 

 of the one Association should give information to those of the other, 

 of the time and place of the meetings. That the Secretaries should 

 assist each other by inserting advertisements, &c, in the journals, 

 newspapers, or other publications, notifying the time and place of 

 meeting, and any other circumstances. That the two Associations 

 should exchange their annual Reports or other publications, each 

 disposing of the copies of the other's publications to the best ad- 

 vantage, or giving advice as to the public libraries, institutions, or 

 journals and reviews, to which they should be sent. Lastly, that 

 they should communicate together on any scientific researches, which 

 it is their object to pursue, such as those relative to meteorology, 

 the tides, &c." 



DUBLIN MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



The Fifth Meeting of the British Association, which was held 

 in Dublin during the last month, has afforded abundant grati- 

 fication to those who were able to attend, and will, we are fully per- 

 suaded, in various modes materially promote the great object of the 

 Institution — the advancement of science. 



Details of the kind attention and cordial and munificent hospitality 

 of our Irish friends towards those who were assembled in Dublin, 

 and of various matters which may be considered as accessories to 

 such a meeting, have been given in the daily and weekly papers. 

 The appropriate province of our journal will be to record a more 

 full and exact account of the proceedings of the Association than 

 hasty reports can supply ; and this we hope to do next month to 

 the satisfaction of our readers, as in conformity with a resolution of 

 the Association the official reportsof the Sections are to be furnished 

 to us and to our contemporaries by the Secretaries. 



