280 French Kattonal Institute. 



The memoirs intended for competition must be sent to 

 the secretary's department of the Institute free of expense, 

 and the secretary will give receipts for them if required. 

 They may likewise be sent, free of postage, to the perpetual 

 secretaries of the mathematical and physical class of sciences. 



The competitors are informed that the Institute will not 

 return any of the works sent to it on the above occasion. 

 The authors may therefore keep copies of them if they 

 please. 



The Institute will deliver the gold medals to the bearers 

 of the receipts; and where there is no receipt produced, the 

 medal will be transmitted to the author himself^ or to some 

 person appointed by him to receive it. 



. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR THE LAST HALF- 

 YEAR OF 1806. 



Analyiis of the Laloiirs in the Vhysiral Pepartment) as 

 draun up by M. Cuvier*. 



By the orders of the society the limits of the report we 

 are now about to make are confined to the period of s\^ 

 months only ; but our report is not the less rich in interest- 

 ing results from this circumstance. The numerous vacan-r 

 pies which have occurred this year among the members of 

 the Class of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, by ex- 

 citmg a lively emulation, have produced a remarkable col- 

 lection of works in the various departments of the natural 

 sciences. We shall continue faithfully to observe the prac- 

 tice, hitherto adopted, of analysing these works at the same 

 time with those of our colleagues ; the history of the sci- 

 ences requires it: these labours, although foreign in appear- 

 ance, are almost always connected with ours by the identity 

 of the objects of inquiry, and we almost always appro-r 

 priate some part of them to ourselves; by repeating and 

 varying the observations v/hich form their bases, we have 

 often occasion to appreciate their merits. 



Messrs. Bosc and Silvester, the principal candidates in the 

 agricultural department, have greatiy improved upon somf 



• From Mag. Ency. for February l807. 



