200 inimal Heat, &e. 
the unjust opposition which checks the progress and tends 
to paralyse the generous efforts of the friends of instruction. 
At the school of Auzin the teacher fell sick and was detain- 
ed from his class for three montis, During this time the 
there are but 9,000,000 that can read and write. Henceit 
may be stated that 15,000,000 of the French people are 
without instruction. 
36. Animal Heat.—The French Academy offer a prize 
of a gold medal of the value of 3,000 francs for the deter- 
mination by exact experiments of the causes, whether 
chemical or physiological, of animal heat. It requires, par- 
ticularly that the heat emitted by a healthy animal in a given 
time, and the carbonic acid which it evolves by respiration 
in the same time, should be precisely determined, and that 
the heat thus set free should be compared with that produ- 
eed by the combustion of carbon in forming the same quan- 
tity of carbonic acid. 
The Academy also offers a similar premium to whoever 
shall determine by multiplied experiments: Ist. The den- 
sity acquired by liquids, and especially in the ease of mer- 
eury, water, alcohol and sulphuric ether, by compressions 
equivalent to the weight of many atmospheres; and, 2dly. 
. Pi 2 
The heat produced by these compressions. 
37. Necrology.—The w 
- guished French philosopher, died at Paris on the 6th 
- September last. Her charity and philanthropy are highly 
eulogized in the public account of her death. She was 
known in the literary world by a translation of Ad ith’ 
Theory of Moral Sentiments, 
he 
idow of Condoreet, the distin. 
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