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fy, of the persecutions it had experienced, and of the mel- 

 ancholy end of its most zealous founders. He stated the 

 efforts which had been made in 1797, to re-establish this 

 firnri institution ; and he gave a succinct analysis of the me- 

 moirs read at his private sessions. They are numerous, 

 and extend to all the branches of natural history. This 

 statement of the secretary and the memoirs to which it al- 

 ludes, will appear in the first volume of the Acts of the Lin- 

 nean Society. The eulogium on Tournefort was pronoun- 

 ced by M. Lefebure, one of the vice presidents, in which 

 he forcibly recapitulated the services rendered by this phi- 

 losopher, to the most attractive of the sciences- A discourse 

 was pronounced by Dumont d^Unville, a skillful mariner 

 and profound naturahst, on the Volcanic isles of Santorin. 

 In the neighbourhood of Yuctot, department of the iSezwe 

 %nferiture^ there is an oak remarkable for its antiquity, and 

 for the existence of a chapel in the cavity of its shell. This 

 chape! has been known one hundred and twenty-five years j 

 it is attended by a priest, who has his habitation in the up- 

 per part of the trunk. The top oi the tree was broken off 

 more than fifty years ago, and has been replaced by a stee- 

 ple. The branches of this tree are covered every year with 



foli 



lage 



The Society offer a gold medal of the value of 300 

 francs, to the author of the best memoir on the movements 

 and condition of the sap in all the phases of vegetable life, 

 and in the different seasons of the year. The results must 

 oe drawn from reiterated experiments and new considera- 



tions. 



Idem* 



18. jj Religious Tract Society has been established in 

 Paris for the purpose of spreading either gratis or at a very 

 low price, small tracts, which shall present under various 

 forms the most important truths and the finest lessons of 

 Christianity as it is contained in the gospeh 



b/Arts 



A new 



amphitheatre has been erected at this noble Institution, for 

 ^he purpose of accommodating those who shall attend the 

 lectures on the application of science to the arts. It is uni- 

 versally approved for its elegant form, its distributions and, 

 the ingenious manner in which it Is carved. The Session 



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