96 REPORT 1841. 



Institutions of which the amount both of Income and Expenditure is stated. 



Papers containing portions of a return of the Stipends of the Clergy of the Esta- 

 blished Church in Scotland, were presented to the Section. From them it appeared 

 that the average stipend of a clergyman in Berwick is 268/. per annum, in Roxburgh- 

 shire 2S81., and in Haddington '.iGdl. 



Prof. Quetelet addressed the Section on the importance of keeping exact registers, 

 in different districts, of the facts described in the following table : — 



, ' 1. Meteorology. 



Pressure of air. 

 Temperature. 

 Humidity. 

 Electricity. 



Force and direction of winds. 

 Quantity of rain and snow, &c. 

 State of the sky. 

 Meteors, falling stars, &c. 



2. Phijsics. 

 Magnetism of the earth. 

 Temperature at different depths. 

 Ditto at sources and mouths of rivers. 

 Temperatures of vegetables and animals. 

 Phaenomena of tides. 



3. Chemistry. 

 Analysis of air. 

 of rain water. 



4. Botany. 

 Budding of plants. 

 Flowering. 

 Fructification. 

 Shedding of leaves. 



He stated, that from observation it ap])eared that there was a periodicity in the 

 facts both of the physical and moral world. To tabulate these facts, to ascertain the 

 times and circumstances of their maxima and minima, and to show where they coin- 

 cided with each other, would be highly beneficial to science, and would render statis- 

 tics the great bond by which all other branches of knowledge would be held together, 

 and all applied to the service of man. He then went over the several heads of inquiry, 

 briefly commenting on each. 



Report on the state of Education in the Polytechnic School at Paris, prepared 

 attherequestof 3auts,s, Heywood, F.R.S., by an English resident in Paris. 



The Polytechnic School of Paris is the principal educational institution in which 

 pupils are prepared for the public service, in the departments of the artillery, engi- 

 neering, and the construction of roads and bridges in France. 



A severe preliminary examination is required from all the candidates who are de- 

 sirous of admission into the Polytechnic School. 



Two years' study are required from each of the pupils in the school, and the course 

 of study consists, practically, of a continual series of examinations, which are often 

 limited to particular branches of mathematical science, and are followed by more ge- 

 neral examinations at the end of each academical year. 



Public competition forms a part of the regulations for the entrance examination 

 in the Polytechnic School, and no one can be admitted to this competition without 



5. Agriculture. 



Epochs of rural labour. 



of vegetable maturity. 



of hay-making. 



of vintages. 



6. Zoology. 



Arrival & departure of birds, insects, &c. 



of fishes. 



Entomological phaenomena. 

 Reproduction of animals. 

 Mortality. 



7. Man. 



Births, and all their circumstances. 



Deaths, and all their circumstances. 



Diseases, and their duration. 



Crimes. 



Consumption of food. 



Letters. 



Traffic and travelling on roads. 



on canals. 



in harbours. 



