Egyptian Inflitute. 425, 
gave variations equally great. In regard to the human 
fpecies, the obfervations which ought to ferve as certain 
data are very imperfect; but pregnancy, according to C. 
Teffier, may be prolonged a quarter beyond the ufua) time, 
A child, therefore, fays the author, born beyond the eleventh 
month of the widowhood of the mother ought not to be any 
_ impeachment of her chaftity. And fuch was the fentence 
paffed by a celebrated decree of the parliament of Paris, 
which declared as legitimate a princé of Condé born eleven 
months after the death of his father *. 
The fitting was terminated by the reading of an allegorical 
poem in two cantos, by C. Colin-Harleville, entitled, The 
Adventures of Melpomene and Thalia. 
INSTITUTE AT CAIRO, 
THE National Inftitute of Paris having received minutes 
of the eight firft fittings of the In{titute of Cairo, they were 
read to the three claffes in their fittings of the 26th, 27th, 
and 28th of Frimaire. 
The Inftitute of Cairo, formed by Bonaparte after the mo- 
del of that of France, confifts of four clafies: mathematics, 
the phyfical fciences, political economy, literature, and the 
-* An inftance of the fame kind, which occurred at Rome, is related by 
Aulus Gellius. A woman of a refpeétable charaéter brought forth a child 
in. the eleventh month after the death of her hufband. The woman was 
accufed of having violated her chaftity; but the emperor Adrian, under 
whiofe reign the aifair happened, decreed that it was poffible for pregnancy 
to be extended to.that period. The following are the author’s words: 
Preterea ego de partu humano, preterquam quz fcripta in libris legi, hoc 
quoque veniffe ufu Romz comperi. Foeminam bonis atque honeftis mori- 
bus non ambigua pudicitia, in undecimo menfe, poft mariti mortem, pe- 
perifle ; faStumque effe negotium propter rationem temporis, quafi marito 
mortuo poftea concepiffetr, quoniam decem viri in decem menfibus gigni 
. tteminem, non in undecime fcripfiffent: fed divum Hadrianum, caufa 
cognita, decrevifle in undecimo quoque menfe partum edi poffe : idque 
ipfum ejus rei decretum nos legimus. In eo decreto Hadrianus id ftatuere 
fe dicit requifitis veterum philofophorum et medicorum fententiis. 
A. Gel}. Nod. Ait, lib. iii. cap. 16, Eps. 
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