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perfection of Lyonese industry. M. Tabareau, member of 

 the academy of Lyons and professor of Philosophy has been 

 placed at the head of the course of instruction, and has 

 been directed to repair to Paris, in order to become acquaint- 

 ed with the course professed by Baron Dupin ; and thence to 

 Chalons-sur-Marnc, to learn the organization of the royal 

 school of arts and trades at that place. The instruction 

 will be theoretical and practical. The theory will embrace 

 grammar, arithmetic, drawing and designing, architecture, 

 notions of algebra, elementary and descriptive geometry, 

 and their applications to the arts, a course of chemistry, 

 applicable especially to dyeing, and a course of machines. 

 The principal shops attached to the school, shall be those of 

 joinery, lockmaking, turning in wood and metals, casting, 

 machinery and silk dyeing. — Ibid. 



29. Battle of Ants ; by M. Hanhart. — The author in this 

 memoir describes a battle which he saw between two spe- 

 cies of ants ; one the formica rufa, and the other a littler 

 fola^k ant, which he does not name, (probably the fofusca.) 

 In other respects there is nothing new on this subject, this 

 kind of combat having been described in detail, and in a 

 very interesting manner, by M. Huber, (Recherches sur les 

 moeurs des Fourmis, 1810,) a work to which we refer, not be- 

 ing able here to enter into the requisite details. 



M. Hanhart saw these insects approach in armies composed 

 of their respective swarms and advancing towards each oth- 

 er in the greatest order. The formica rufa marched with 

 one in front on a line from nine to twelve feet in length, 

 flanked by several corps in square masses, composed of from, 

 twenty to sixty individuals. 



The second species, (little blacks,) forming an army much 

 more numerous, marched to meet the enemy, on a very ex- 

 tended line, and from one to three individuals abreast. 

 They left a detachment at the foot of their hillock to defend 

 it against any unlooked for attack. The rest of the army 

 marched to the battle, with its right wing supported by a sol- 

 id corps, of several hundred individuals, and the left wing 

 supported by a similar body of more than a thousand. 

 These groups advanced in the greatest order, and without 

 changing their positions. The two lateral corps took no 

 part in the principal action. That of the right wing made 

 a halt and formed an army of reserve ; whilst the corps which 



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