B32 Proceedings of the Inflitute at Cairo. 
C. Coftaz read a memoir, in which he explained the varta- 
tions in the colour of the fea. : 
C. Parfeval read a poetical tranflation of a fragment of 
the 16th canto of Taffo’s Jerufalem Delivered. 
Eighth Sitting, Vendemiaire 11. 
Fifty mummies of birds fent to the Inftitute were deli- 
vered toa commiffion compofed of Bonaparte, Geoffroy, 
Dolomieu and fome others, in order to be examined. 
_ Porte, a French inhabitant of Cairo engaged in the ma- 
nufactory of indigo, prefented fpecimens of it to the Inftitute. 
C. Larrey communicated a memoir on opthalmiz. 
€. Beauchamp read a memoir on his voyage from Con- 
ftantinople to Trebifonde. 
C. Delifle read a memoir on the palm which bears. the. 
fruit called domm. tis the cuffiophora of Theophraftus. 
C. Dolomieu read a memoir, in which he fhewed the ne- 
ceflity of ftudying ancient geography and geology. He fixes the 
fite of the ancient Alexandria between two hills of fandy calca- 
reous ftone. He explained the fucceffive changes which that 
city experienced, and is of opinion, that the fea muft have 
rifen a foot fince the time of Ptolemy. 
The above pieces when delivered were accompanied by the 
fir number of a new Journal entitled, La DECADE Eeyp- 
TIENNE, Journal littéraire et d’ Economie politique, An. VIL, 
dela Republique Francaife, 10 Vendemiaire. 
_This journal is publithed every tenth day. Each number 
confifts of two fheets and a half o&avo, and cofts 20 fous 
French money, or 10 francs for 12 numbers. Subfcrip- 
tions received by C. Maren Aureos printer to the army, 
French quarter at Cairo. It was accompanied by a pro- 
fpeCtus announcing that this journal would be merely lites 
rary; that no intelligence or political difcuffions would be 
admitted ; but that every thing relating to the arts and fci- 
ences, commerce, both in a general and particular point of 
view, civil and criminal legiflation, moral and religious in- 
ftitutions, would be thankfully received. ; 
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