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ethylene is replaced by ammonia. A number 

 of other compounds of these salts were formed 

 and in every case were analogous, in crystal- 

 lographical character as well as in chemical 

 composition. It is interesting to see two com- 

 pounds, each of which had appeared for half a 

 century or more to be unique, thus shown to be 

 of the same type, and it is by no means impos- 

 sible that other salts of this type may yet be 

 discovered. 



In 1886 Linnemann claimed to have discov- 

 ered in orthite a new metal which he named 

 austrium, but this work was never confirmed. 

 Richard Pribram has recently repeated the 

 work of Linnemann and concludes, as had 

 Lecoq de Boisbaudran, that austrium is ident- 

 ical with gallium. But he also concludes from 

 a, very thorough spectroscopic examination of 

 the same orthite, that there is a new element 

 present which has not yet been isolated, which 

 is entirely distinct from Linnemann's austrium, 

 and to which Pribram proposes to give the 

 earlier name austrium. 



J. L. H. 



THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 

 ACADE3IIES.* 



The Academy will recall the fact that at the 

 conclusion of the mission entrusted to M. Mois- 

 san and myself, consent was given to the ' Pro- 

 jet de Statuts pour 1' Association Internationale 

 des Academies,' drawn up by the delegates of 

 the nine Academies represented at the Confer- 

 ence held at Wiesbaden early in October last, 

 at the invitation of the Academy of Berlin. 



The international Association is now consti- 

 tuted ; and it includes the eighteen following 

 Academies : 



1. Academy of Sciences Amsterdam. 



2. Prussian Academy of Sciences.. Berlin. 



3. Academy of Sciences, Litera- 



ture and the Fine Arts Brussels. 



4. Hungarian Academy of Sci- 



ence Budapest. 



5. Academy of Sciences Christiania. 



6. Society of Sciences Gijttingen. 



* Translation in Nature of a report made to the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences by M. Darboux, perma- 

 nent Secretary of the Academy, and published in 

 the Comptes rendus. 



7. Academy of Sciences of Den- 



mark Copenhagen. 



8. Academy of Sciences of Saxony. Leipzig. 



9. Royal Society London. 



10. Academy of Sciences of Ba- 



varia Munich. 



11. Academy of Inscriptions and 



Literature Paris. 



12. Academy of Sciences Paris. 



13. Academy of Moral and Polit- 



ical Sciences Paris. 



14. Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg. 



15. Academy dei Lincei Rome. 



16. Sweedish Academy of Sciences Stockholm. 



17. Academy of Sciences Washington. 



18. Academy of Sciences Vienna. 



Amongst the Academies invited to join, one 

 only, the Royal Academy of History of Madrid, 

 has as yet not replied to the request of the 

 Wiesbaden Conference. 



The provisional rules take into consideration 

 the possibility of the addition of other learned 

 societies, and in g 2 the conditions and form- 

 alities are indicated which will be necessary for 

 the admission of a new Academy. 



The Association comprises two Sections, the 

 Section of Literature and the Section of Science. 

 The work will be carried out by general meet- 

 ing and committee. In principal, the general 

 meeting will be held every three years, and each 

 Academy will send as many delegates as it may 

 deem necessary, hut each Academy will have 

 only one vote, which should be given by one of 

 the members of the delegation. 



In the interval between two general meet- 

 ings, the Association is represented by the com- 

 mittee, each Academy being represented on this 

 by one member only, if it concerns itself with 

 only one of the Sections of Literature or Science; 

 it will send two delegates when it is concerned 

 with both Sections. Amongst the eighteen 

 Academies, twelve belong to both Sections and 

 consequently will send two delegates to the 

 committee. Of the other six, four, namely the 

 Royal Society of London, the Academy of 

 Sciences of Paris, the Academy of Stockholm, 

 and the National Academy of Washington, be- 

 long to the Section of Science alone, and two, 

 the Academy of Inscriptions and Literature, and 

 the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, 

 belong to the Section of Literature. Hence the 



