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and that the capital amounts to 237,258 francs independent- 
ly of the legacy of the count and countess Jollivet, which 
raises the funds to about 300,000 francs. M. De Gerando 
pronounced an Eulogium on these two benefactors of in- 
dustry, and shewed the advantages which this rich bequest 
will naturally afford to the prosperity of the arts and manu- 
factories of the nation. 
The society then adjudged medals of encouragement to 
e ingenious labours appear most worthy of this 
honourable distinction. M, Mollard read a report upon the 
superb establishment of M. Roguin at Garre, for preparing 
and vending wood and stuff for carpentry, cabinet making, 
c. This enterprise, managed upon the principles which 
M. Brunel has established in England, works by the aid of 
steam, in slitting fir and oak timber into boards fit for nice 
work, and cutting them into grooves and strips suitable for 
veneeringand inlaying. A Gold medal was adjudged to M. 
Roguin.—M. Hericart de Thury made a stat toft ne 
prosperity of the marble works of France, compared with 
their present condition. He announced thatin 1821, France 
drew from foreign countries 4 millions of Kilogrammes (4000 
tons nearly) of marble, notwithstanding that that of its own 
quarries is inno respect inferior to those of Greece and li- 
aly. he mecting highly applauded a passage in which the 
reporter revived the fact that M. Chapta/, during his minis- 
try, introduced many portions of architecture, made of the 
haif, 
and at least as handsome as the Stanhope press. A silver 
