Miscellanies. 191 



20. " The Family Cabinet Atlas," first American edition with one 

 hundred maps and tables, very neatly executed, is a fair specimen of 

 the multum in parvo, and may form an appropriate accompaniment 

 to the New Universal Gazetteer. 



FOREIGN. 



21. Polytechnic Society of Paris. — This society has been organ- 

 ized by the former pupils of the polytechnic school, and all of them 

 are conversant with practical arts of industry and commerce. 



The object of the society is to promote the progress of industry 

 and to supply the wants of the commercial and agricultural classes, 

 especially of France. Its principal means are, 



1. An extensive correspondence with its members at home and 

 abroad. 



2. A responsibility, in consequence of an understanding with the 

 heads of establishments, to see all orders faithfully executed. 



3. A great collection of very perfect models of machines to serve 

 as specimens, and to be exhibited at a particular place. 



4. The Receuil Industrie^ fyc. of M. De Moleon, a valuable and 

 interesting journal, is the vehicle of all the observations and discove- 

 ries of the society, and of the results of the communication of its 

 members in every part of the world. 



In its organization are included 



1. Des Industriels, who attend to the interests of manufacturers, 

 machinists, he. 



2. Des rfgronomes, who watch over rural economy. 



3. Des Commergans, whose vigilance is directed to commerce and 

 its various dependant interests. 



Foreign ambassadors are invited to supply the wants of their re- 

 spective countries through the agency of the society, whose address 

 au directeur de la Societe P olytechnique rue neuve-des- Capucines, 

 JVb. 1 3 bis. 



Such a society under the able direction which it will doubdess 

 receive from its president, M. De Moleon, and his associates, cannot 

 fail of being highly useful both to Frenchmen and strangers. We 

 add, from a letter of M. De Moleon to the Editor, dated Paris, Oct. 

 10, 1832, " Cette Societe a pour but de satisfaire aux besoins indus- 

 tries de tous les pays — de procurer aux manufacturers, aux fab- 

 ncans, aux agronomes et aux artistes les mecanismes, dont ils peu- 

 vent avoir besoin, soit sous la forme de modele, soit en grande ; de 

 surveiller leur confection, et de les expedier a destination ; de fournir 



