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arts, and wishes to contribute to their prosperity may be- 

 come a member of either of the classes, simply by being 

 proposed by two members, accepted by its committee, and 

 paying the annual sum of forty florins, ($3,75 cts.) By a 

 further contribution of twenty florins, he may become a 

 member of either of the other classes. The members of 

 each class enjoy the privilege of attending all its delibera- 

 tions, of communicating their researches, of asking for in- 

 formation, proposing questions on the subject of prizes, elec- 

 ting committees, and assisting in the general meeting of 

 the Society. 



8. Geneva. — Mutual Instruction. — Notwithstanding its 

 detractors, and the hostile insinuations which were recently 

 advanced in the discussion relative to the best means of 

 perfecting literary studies in Geneva, the plan of mutual in- 

 struction is making incessant progress. In the course of 

 the la?t year, Lancasterian schools have been erected in the 

 towns of Carouge and Versoix, and in the communes of 

 Laney, Perly, Certour, Meinier and Cholen. The gov- 

 ernment, always ready to favour useful enterprizes, has lib- 

 erally assisted these new institutions, whose ben.ficent in- 

 fluence it wishes to extend to all parts of the Canton. The 

 large building newly constructed in the court of the college 

 of Geneva, will contain 300 or 400 pupils. This large 

 school is the third which has been instituted in the principal 

 town in the Canton. — Rev. Encyc. 



9. Rural Economy. — An experienced farmer of the 

 Netlierlands assures us that an ounce of saltpetre dissolved 

 in a pint of water with an ounce of flour of sulphur, and 

 scattered upon grain in a granary, is an infallible means of 

 preventing it from spoiling. — Idem. 



10. Agriculture, Liege, JVeiherlands. — One of the prize 

 qiiesiions proposed by the "Society of Encouragcn)ent and 

 Emulation," of tiiat city, and decided at its public session 

 last year, was, Is it better to mow the first crop of grass in 

 the seasonwhile il is still tender — or rrnt until it has acquired 



full maturity and produced seed? The prize was divided 

 between C. J. Van Hoosebeke and H. P. Tiileman. They 

 both decide, in their memoirs, that it is better to mow at 



