378 Foreign Literature and Science. 
and Venice. Another called the Eridano, goes from Ven- 
ice to Pavia on the Po, and so rapidly as to make the pas- 
sage in 37 hours. 
The steam-boat at Trieste lately saveda, merchant vessel, . 
richly loaded, from shipwreck, when the weather was such 
as to prevent our vessels from leaving the port. 
24, Royal Medical Society in France.—An ordinance of 
the king, of the 20th December, 1820, establishes at Paris, 
for the whole of France, a Royal Academy of Medicine. 
This Academy is specially instituted to answer the demands 
of Government in all that relates to the public health, and 
principally with respect to epidemics, diseases incident to 
certain countries, the diseases of domestic animals, the va- 
rious cases of legal medicine, propagation of vaccination, ex- 
amination of new remediesinternal as well as external, min- 
eral waters natural and artificial, and, in short, to occupy it- 
self with all the objects of study and research which can 
contribute to the progress of the different branches of the 
art of healing. ‘The Academy is divided into three sections, 
one of medicine, one of surgery, and one of pharmacy. It 
is composed of honorary titulary, associate and adjunct 
members. ‘There will be thirty honorary members in the 
section of medicine, twenty in the section of surgery, and 
ten in the section of pharmacy. Of titulary members there 
will be forty-five in medicine, twenty-five in surgery, and 
fifteen in pharmacy. There will be thirty free associates, - 
who must reside in Paris, forty-five ordinary associates, of 
whom twenty will reside in Paris, and thirty foreign. asso- 
ciates. The associates will be attached to no particular sec- 
tion. The number of resident adjuncts may equal that of 
the titulars in the section to which they are attached. The 
number of correspondent adjuncts is indeterminate, Each 
of the three sections will elect its honorary titular and ad- 
junct members. The associates will be elected by the entire 
Academy. The gencrai boardof the Academy will be com-. 
posed of a perpetual honorary president, a temporary pres- 
ident, a secretary and a treasurer. The first physician to 
the king will, ex-officio,be the president @’honneur perpetuel ; 
the other members of the board will be elected by the en- 
tire Academy. The particular board of each. section will 
be composed of a president, vice-president, and secretary. 
