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in 1817. Third edition by A. Morin (327 p., Neuilly 1859). Eighth edition in 6 

 parts: I. Mecanique 1905; II. Physique 1905; III. Geometric, geodesic, cosmographie, 

 astronomic, science nautique, chronometric, instruments de calcul, poids ct mesures, 

 1906; IV. Arts chimiqucs, matiercs colorantes ct tcinture, ceramique et vcrrerie 1908; 

 V. Arts graphiqucs, photographic, filature ct tissage, mines, metalkirgie et travail dcs 

 metaux 1908; VI. Art dcs constructions ct genie civil, art applique aux metiers, econo- 

 mic domestiquc, hygiene, statistiquc, agriculture ct genie rural 1910. 



The Conservatoire is not simply a museum; it is also a technical school including 

 laboratories, workshops, a library. 



AiME Laussedat: Le Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers (folio, 24 p., ill., France 

 Artistique et Monumentale Paris s. a., c. 1894). 



Anatole de Monzie: Le conservatoire du peuple (154 p., Paris 1948). 



1937: Palais de la Decouverte: 



This museum was created as a part of the Exposition intcrnationalc dcs Arts et 

 Metiers in 1937. Since that time it has been attached to the University of Paris. 

 It realizes the general conception of Jean Perrin (1870-1942). 



Like the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers which it supersedes, its main purpose 

 is not historical but educational in the broadest sense. History comes in unavoid- 

 ably; historical outlines arc not only interesting (even to non-historians) but educa- 

 tive. Its purpose is to show not only what has been done, but also what is being 

 done today and what might be done tomorrow. It is meant to be a living bridge 

 between the public and the laboratories. It is divided into eight sections: mathe- 

 matics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, surgery, microbiology. 

 Special exhibitions are organized from time to time, some of them historical (La- 

 voisier, Davy and Faraday, discoveries of Hertzian waves, of radium, etc. ) Lec- 

 tures and demonstrations are given frequently. Everything is done to attract the 

 public, interest it and teach it as much as possible. 



The Palais de la decouverte is already immense (50 rooms or halls in 1948) but 

 it is planned to increase it considerably. 



A few rooms have been recently opened (Isis 40: 353) which are devoted more 

 specifically to the history of science. 



The director is A. Leveille, who WTote a short description of it in Experientia 

 (vol. 1, 345-46, Basel 1945). 



Musee et bibliotheque d'histoire de la medecine ( Faculte dc medecine, rue de I'Ecole 



de medecine. Boulevard St. Germain): 



The Musee Orfila includes old surgical instruments and other historical objects, 

 but it is mainly a collection of pathological anatomy founded in 1835 by the physician 

 and toxicologist Mathieu Orfila of Minorca (1787-1853). 



Institut Pasteur ( rue Dutot, Paris 15 ) : 



The Institut was inaugurated on 4 Nov. 1888; Pasteur died in 1895. The crypt 

 of the Institut contains his tomb and that of his wife, Marie. 



From the point of view of the historian of science, this is one of the most impres- 

 sive shrines in the whole world. Would that more people visited it than there are 

 who visit the tomb of Napoleon in the Hotel des Invalides. 



Musee de Cluny: 



This very rich museum has relatively few objects concerning the historian of 

 science proper, rather than the historian of arts and crafts. It has clocks, astrolabes, 

 and the large wire-drawing bench made in 1565 for the Elector Augustus of Saxony 

 {see note on Dresden below). The bench is described in the Catalogue general. 

 Bois sculptes ct meubles by Edmond Haraucourt and Montremy (no. 638, Paris 

 1925). 



Musee d'histoire de la pharmacie (4 Avenue de I'Observatoirc ) : See Arch, intern, 

 hist. sci. 1949, 2, 810. 



