96 Correspondence of J. Nickles. 
In a long series of anatomical monographs he has shown the general 
characteristics of the interior structure of all the pangs) representatives 
of this great division n articulate animals. Residing since 1814 in a small 
village at the foot of the Pyrenees he has devoted to pts, 38 inves- 
tigations all the sine which his profession of medicine left at his disposal, 
and even now at the a age of more than 80 years, it is in researches of the 
same kind that he fills up the leisure of a green old age. The love of 
science has always been his only motive and the numerous services 
which he has retidered to zoology have brought him neither riches nor 
honor. 
Among the works presented for the Cuvierian prize the Academy has 
noticed those of the American Zoologist, Girard, upon the Jchthyologic 
Fauna of the Western Regions of the New World, and upon the Reptiles 
collected during the voyage of Capt. Wilkes in the Antarctic Seas. This 
work, says the Commission,* is not unworthy to take a place with the 
beautiful and important works with which Mr. Dana, the principal Natu- 
ralist of that Expedition, has enriched science, and the Commission con- 
sider this a fitting occasion to testify publicly the gegen? which 
they experience in the zoological studies undertaken in America, and 
py oe iia oa. finds there ay gp ebeniciindeaae . 
a mc: of "2000 francs wa ‘ovarded to isco “ for the rode 
by. the transformation of gelatine mou aa) 
The Report. the following: “ In making mention, at the present 
session, of the yemarkable labors of. Pasteur, the section of Chemistry 
wish to reserve the liberty of considering them i in their fall extent here- 
after, both in regard to the past and to the future 
It is here proper to say that Pasteur, who = eapacially shared the 
prizes of the Academie des Sciences, will next year have a new ae of 
6000 franes for the — class of ee which have been: recor | 80 
des centres nerv nerveux ae 2 Faivre for his work, “Sur la modification 
qu éprouvent apres le ite les prcanits des nerfs and des muscles chez 
les grenouilles, 
mong the ‘medical prizes we may mention that given to Devaine for 
the “ Traité des Entozoaires ei boot maladies vermineuses de Thomme 
et des animaux,” a work. which compared with,what had previously 
of Smpsed of Mon lourens Blie de Beaxmont, Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Serres’ 
7 See thi vo, p. 1, ie tio Pasteur's recent labors, 
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