X Proceedings. {December iph,igog. 



decree of institution being dated 3 Fructidor year VI. Bonaparte 

 had taken with him a corps of savants, who were to study on 

 the spot the antiquities, history, geography, and the physical 

 state of Egypt, a country then httle known in Europe. All the 

 savants who accompanied the expedition were not members of 

 the Institute, for Bonaparte wished membership to be a reward 

 for work done in Egypt. During the Cairo rebellion several 

 members of the Institution were killed. According to a foot- 

 note on p. I of the English translation of the " Researches into 

 the Laws of Chemical Affinity," * the reading of that treatise 

 was commenced in the Institution of Cairo, June, 7th year {i.e., 

 1799). The sudden departure from Egypt of Bonaparte in the 

 following August put an end to Berthollet's connection with 

 Cairo. He and Monge accompanied Bonaparte to France, but 

 the Institute continued at Cairo until 1801, when, the French 

 having evacuated Egypt, its members were transferred to Paris, 

 where the work of publishing the results of their Egyptian 

 labours was continued until 1828. Of the work of the Institute 

 a modern Mohammedan writer (Haji Browne) says they " com- 

 menced the labours which were to give to the world the vast, 

 though unhappily incomplete, description of Egypt, which is 

 unquestionably the most marvellous work of the kind ever 

 undertaken. Of these men it may be said that they represented 

 all that is best and noblest in the French nation and the higher 

 aspirations of the revolution." From Napoleon Berthollet 

 received the title of Count, and on one occasion the gift of 

 200,000 francs for the equipment of a chemical laboratory. 

 When the monarchy was restored, Berthollet was made a peer 

 of France. He died in 1822. 



Dr. Sidney Russ read a paper entitled "A Note on 

 Radio-active Recoil." 



Mr. D. M. S. Watson, B.Sc, gave an account of his paper 

 entitled " A Preliminary Account of the Bibliography of 

 the Post-Triassic Sauropterygia. 



• A copy of this work, translated by Dr. M. Farrell, and dated 1804, is 

 to be found in the Manchester Free Reference Library, King Street. 



