3/4 I■HlLO^OPHJCAL TI! ANSACTION'S. _ [aNNO 1 SyQ. 



of the usual size; and all the nerves, which issued froin it, were in their 

 natural order. The eyes were well shaped, and all the [larts belonging to them 

 in their natural situation. But all these nerves terminated in the holes of the 

 .skull, through which they commonly pass; they reached no further, nor had 

 any cotnmunication with any other. The tongue was very fresh, and doubtless 

 had performed the deglutition to make the child swallow the colliquamentum, 

 a good quantity of which was in his stomach. The larynx, and all the parts 

 of the throat were, as the rest of the body, in a good and natural con- 

 dition. 



Account of the New Regulations of the Royal Academy of Sciences * at Paris. 

 By Mons. Geojroy, F.R.S. N''251, p. 144. 



The academy is now composed of 10 honorary academicians, learned and 

 eminent gentlemen ; of 8 foreign associates, distinguished by their learning; 

 20 fellow pensioners, 20 pupils, and 12 French associates. Out of the hono- 

 rary academicians, two are elected every year, one for president, the other for 

 vice-president. Only 20 pensioners have every year 1500 French livres ; and 

 after the death of one pensioner, the Academy will propose to the king three 

 persons associates, or pupils, or sometimes others; and his majesty will name 

 one of the three for pensioner. 



The following is the catalogue of the academicians, the names of honorary 

 and foreign associates, who are disposed according to the order of recep- 

 tion ; but the others are distributed into classes, into which the academy is 

 divided. 



Academicians 70. 



Honnraries 10. Foreign Associates 8. 



President, M. L'abbe Bignon M. Leibnitz 



2 Presid. M. Le Marquis de L'Hopital M. rschirnhaiis 



M. Le Chevalier Regnaut M Guillelniini 



M. De IVlalesieux M. Bernouilli, a Basle 



Le R. P. Sebastien, Carme M. Bernouilli, a Groningue 



Le R. P Malbranche, de L'Oratoire M. Hartsoeker 



Le R. P. Gouye, Jesuite M. Romer 



M. L'abbe de Luuv is M. Newton. 



M. Fagon, 1'"=^ Medicin du Roy 



M. de Vauban 



* The Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris was founded in l666 (about 4 years after the establish- 

 ment f of its prototype, the Royal Society of London) and was remodelled in l699 upon the plan 

 above-mentioned. It was abolished by the National Convention in 1793. The memoirs, which 

 amount to a great number of vjlumes, that have been pu')li'hed by lliis learned body, constiiute a 

 most valuable repository of researches, observations, and discoveiies, in almost every department of 

 philosophy and science. 



+ Tlic Royal Society was incorporated in \6flJ ; but its meeting'! had been held several years before under the ii;ime of 

 the Philosophical Society. 



