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which is to be sent to Martinique for the service of that 

 Island. Rev. Ency. 



15. Astafort. — Mutual Instruction. — Two children ex- 

 tremely addicted to stuttering, were ada^itted to the Lan- 

 casterian school of this town. The frequent repetition of 

 the exercises in a loud voice, and the assiduous care of the 

 master, completely succeeded in curing them of this distress- 

 ing habit which was the more difficult to remedy, as it was 

 hereditary. Idem. 



16. Caen. — A school of mutual instruction has been 

 lately opened in the Central prison of Beaulieu, by the care 

 of the director of that establishment. All the prisoners are 

 willing to profit by the lesson, and their progress has been 

 very satisfactory. The reading of rt-ligious and moral 

 works has already had a remarkable influence upon them. 

 No doubt remains that this result will be as happy here as 

 it has been in other similar places, espi^cially in the prison 

 of Montaign at Paris, and in the maison de detention at 

 Saint Dennis. Idem, 



17. Paris — The hinnean Society of this city held on 

 the 28th December, 1821, its first public annual session 

 since its reorganization, under the presidency of M. de 

 Lacepede. This day was chosen from its being the anni- 

 versary of the death of the illustrious Tournefort, who open- 

 ed the way for Linneus and his disciples. 



In the opening discourse, M. de Lacepede shewed the 

 extent and importance of the labours of the Society, and fe- 

 licitated himself on his having been one of its first found- 

 ers in 1788, and on the happiness of surviving so many dis- 

 tinguished men who had been cut down by the fury of fac- 

 tion, to preside on this day at the reorganization of a socie- 

 ty, destined to reestablish and to propagate the sound doc- 

 trines dictated by Linneus, and to finish the edifice erected 

 to the genius of the Swede by the gratitude and admiration 

 of French naturalists. This discourse was received with 

 great applause. 



M. Thiebaut de Berneaud, perpetual secretary, gave an 

 account of the labours of his learned brethren. He first 

 took a rapid view of the early period of the Linnean Socie- 



