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4. The meetings take place once a year; they are public, and, com- 

 mencing the 18th of September, are to be continued several days. 



5. The place of meeting is migratory; at each reunion the city shall 

 be designated where the next is to be held. 



6. Business affairs shall be conducted by a general agent (Geschcefts- 

 fuJirer) and a secretary, inhabitants of the city designated, and shall 

 be charged with the control till the next meeting. 



7. The general agent shall designate the place and hour of the ses- 

 sions and determine the order of the day ; he should receive timely 

 notice from all those who propose to address the meeting. The Secre- 

 tary is charged with the protocol, with the accounts, and the corres- 

 pondence. To these two functionaries are intrusted all signatures in 

 the name of the association. 



8. It shall be their duty to advise the authorities of the city desig- 

 nated, and to give due publicity to all which shall be determined on. 

 If the nominations to these offices, which shall be made in advance at 

 each meeting, be declined, those already in office shall have the power 

 to appoint others, and may, in case of necessity, designate a different 

 place of meeting from that chosen by the association itself. 



9. If either of these two functionaries should die, the survivor shall 

 nominate a successor, and in case of the death of both, the nominees 

 for the year following shall at once assume the control of affairs. 



10. The association shall possess neither collections nor property of 

 any sort. An object presented at any of the sittings shall be returned 

 to its owner. The accruing expenses shall be provided for by an 

 assessment made with the consent of the members present. 



More than nine hundred persons, who had inscribed their names 

 en the list of the secretary, took part on this occasion in the 

 labors of the sections or the fetes given in honor of the Congress. 

 Quite naturally, a majority of these were natives of the country, not 

 more than a hundred strangers being present, of whom the greater 

 part were French, owing doubtless to the proximity of Carlsruhe. Of 

 English savants there was an entire deficiency. 



Paris was represented by a number of learned men, at the head of 

 whom we remarked M. Despretz, of the Institute, professor of the 

 faculty of sciences, and M. Wurtz, professor of the faculty of medi- 

 cine. Alsace had sent its principal representatives, among whom 

 MM. Daubree, Lereboullet, Schimper, and Bertin were present from the 

 first day, together with MM. Opperman, Kirschleger, and Kopp, of 

 the school of pharmacy. The learned professor of chemistry from the 

 same province, M. Kuhlmann, gave in the course of the sessions some 

 of the principal results of his ingenious applications of chemistry to in- 

 dustrial purposes. Nor, among French savants from more distant 

 places, can we pass by M. de Caumont, founder of the scientific re- 

 unions of France, or Dr. Duchenne, from Boulogne, who gave, in the 

 French language, his researches on the treatment of certain maladies 

 by means of faradisation, a new word, designating currents of induc- 

 tion as applied to therapeutics. As little possible is it to neglect 

 the name of M. Kuhmkorff, the skillful constructor of Paris, who, 



