340 On a sculptured Head in Flint, 



public halls in Paris are decorated with statues, &c. of his 

 composition. 



These productions are as cheap as common painted paper, 

 and from their lightness may be transported to a great di- 

 stance without much expense. The encouragement given to 

 M. Gardeur by the French government, determined him to 

 exert himself in an extraordinary manner to bring his in- 

 vention to perfection, and he has now so far succeeded as 

 to have nothing left to wish for ; he has extended his in- 

 dustry so far as to render his figures capable of ornamenting 

 the outside of buildings also, by rendering them impenetra- 

 ble by the weather. 



The members of the National Institute who were ap- 

 pointed by the minister of the interior to examine the per- 

 formances of M. Gardeur have declared, that to the best of 

 their knowledge he is the only artist who ever exercised 

 that branch of manufacture, and that they were perfectly 

 satisfied with the execution of the specimens shown them 

 on their visit to his manufactory. 



LTII. Report made by M. Guyton upon a sculptured Head 

 in Flint, with a Covering of Chalcedony. Read in the 

 French Institute on the 3\st of March 1806. 



JV1. Millin, a member of the class of antient history 

 and literature, having had occasion to examine, as an object 

 of antiquity, a piece of sculpture found at Roule, thought 

 proper to submit it to the inspection of the class of Physical 

 and Mathematical Sciences, as being interesting both to 

 mineralogy and the processes of the arts; and Messrs. Ber- 

 thollet, Vauquelin, and myself, were charged with making 

 a report on the subject. 



This curiosity was obligingly lent us by M. Cerf, the 

 gentleman to whom it belongs. It had been found, four 

 months ago, in the garden of a house which forms part of 

 the chateau of Femes, in the suburb of Roule, at present 

 occupied as a boarding-school. It was discovered by a gar- 

 dener, at about five or six decimetres below ihe surface. 



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