l88 Trench National Injlitufe. 



ceived the ftandards of the metre and kilogramrac fent to 

 him by the Inftitute ; that he has given orders for their 

 being pveferved with fuch care as may enfvire their authen- 

 ticity; and that he has charged Lenoir and Fortin to make, 

 with the fame accuracy, four other ftandards of the metre 

 and kilogramme ; and that this order has been fuccefsfully 

 executed. On this occafion the king of Spain took a plea- 

 fure in making himfelf acquainted with the new metric fyf- 

 tem, and he declared that he fliould be glad to fee it adopted 

 throughout all Europe. To render it more palatable to the 

 Spanifli nation, and to facilitate the comprehenfion of it to 

 every one, an elementary memoir has been drawn uji on the 

 fubjeft, of which we have received fomc copies. It contains 

 a complete explanation of the new meafures, with a SpmiH) 

 nomenclature, better adapted to the genius of that language, 

 which M. Cifcar propofcs to fubliitute for the Graeco-Latin 

 nomenclature adopted by the French republic. 



The following giccount of the labours of the Clafs of the 

 Moral and Political Sciences during the laft quarter, was 

 fead by C. Levefque. 



C. Anquetil continues to analyfe the manufcript and 

 printed memoirs prcfented to the Academy of Belles Lettrcs 

 by candidates for the prizes propofed by that Society. He 

 has read the analylis of a memoir on the ftate of the fciences 

 in Fratice from the death of king Robert to that of Philip the 

 JFair. 



G. Gaudin has tranfmitted to the CUfs refearches on the 

 legiflation of Solon and the government of Athens. 



C. Mintclle, in a memoir on the heft method of writing 

 geographical names, has fliown the advantage of adopting 

 the names of places fuch as they are ufed in the different 

 countries to which they belong, aiid, when imperious necef- 

 (ity requires that they fliould be disfigured in the French 

 language, of writing them twice, firfl as they are pronounced 

 in French, and then as they are pronounced by the native^ 

 of the country. 



C. Buache has read a memoir on New Holland, which, 

 be thinks, was known more than a century before the pe- 

 riod of the difcovery of it by the Putch He fupports his 



conje(^ur£ 



