378 Foreign Laterature and Sctence. 
and Venice. Another called the Eridano, goes from Ven- 
ice to Pavia on the Po, and so rapidly as to make the pas- 
sage in 37 hours 
The steam-boat at Trieste lately saveda merchant vessel, 
richly loaded, from shipwreck, when the weather was such 
as to poprevent our vessels from leaving the port. 
princi ily with respect to epidemics, diseases incident to 
certain countries, the diseases of domestic animals, the va- 
rious cases of legal medicine, propagation of vaccination, ex- 
amination of new remedies internal as well as external, min- 
eral waters natural and artificial, and, in short, to occupy it- 
self with all the objects of study and research which can 
contribute to the ‘progress of the different branches of the 
art of healing comet is divided into three sections, 
—_ medicine, one ——- and one of pharmacy. It 
is composed of honorary titulary, associate and adjunct 
members. There will be thirty honorary members in the 
section of medicine, twenty in the section of surgery, and 
ten in the section of pharmacy. Of titulary members there 
will be forty-five in medicine, twenty-five in surgery, and 
fifteen in pharmacy. There will be thirty free associates, 
who must reside in Paris, forty-five ordinary associates, of 
whom twenty will reside in Paris, and thirty foreign ase 
he associates will be attached to no particular sec- 
tion. The number of resident adjuncts may equal that of 
the titulars in the section to which they are attached. The 
number of correspondent adjuncts is indeterminate. Each 
of the feb sections will elect its honorary titular and ad- 
s. The associates will be elected by the entire 
iehotinn The general board of the Academy will be com- 
posed of a perpetual rome president, a mea oe pres- 
ident, a secretary and a treasurer, The first physician to 
the king will, ex-officio, be the president d’honneur ; 
other members of the board will be elected by the en- 
a The particular board of each section will 
of a president, vice-president, and secretary- 
