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Secretary of the Treasury of Brazil gave orders to have the baggage and 
instruments of the party pig: unopened at the Custom House, and 
every courtesy was extended to the members of the expedition by the 
pt, dune 9, 
11. geeport on the netgear 4 in Paris ; by M. Devittr.—As far as we 
the commencement of the last century was 1 in 28; 50 years later, lin 
30; in 1836, 1 in 36. The year 1840 was exceptional, and the ratio was 
4 in 333; in 1841 it was again 1 in 36, In 1846, 5 years later, the ratio 
as 1 in 37 ; in 1851, 1 in 38; in 1856,1in 39. ‘These numbers apply 
to “old aris. 
n 1860, the time of the annexation, the population was increased by 
the accession of an area less favorable for health than the interior of Paris, 
Still, on Rai of deaths in 1861, out of 1,696,141 inhabitants, 
was 1 in 39. In 1862 and 1863 the diminution in the ratio of deaths 
Ooty it nee in both years to 1 in 40, the number of deaths 
being, in 1862, 
e Commission see the improvement of the public health to 
the great works carried forward in the capital—that is, the opening o 
avenues, and the improvements in the supply of water, in drainage, in the 
roe: rhombi has been determined to place a aaa bust 
Salcnars in one of the London scientific Societies, and to establish 
a Masser Scholarship, or Fellowship, in Natural Science in the Univer 
sity of Edinburgh. Upwards of £1000 have already been subscribed.— 
ackie’s Repert., ‘ay 1st. 
13. Ink.—The Pave Société d’Encouragement pour V'Industrie Na- 
tionale has offered a prize of three thousand dollars for an ink that will 
not corrode steel eis n. 
14, Production of the Sexes.—The views of Mr. Thury, published ip 
volume xxxix of this Bees (p. 84) have recently been controverted by 
Mr. © Coste, in a memoir read on May 8th before te Academy of Sciences 
at Paris. The author Lee his conclusions on an extensive series of ex- 
Periments and observatio 
15. British Aeaisatien The thirty-fifth meeting of the British As- 
bideshierea the 6th of September, 1865, at 
President for a a year, Gea 
neral 
fairy: 
‘16. Academy of Sciences, Paris —In May last, ae Struve was elected 
_ 8 corresponding member of the Astronomical Section of the Academy, in 
the place of Carlini, and Plantamour of Geneva in the place of William 
the Botanical section, Alexander Braun was a 
ara.—The second ova oy volume apd the 
ublished by th 
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