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7. Switzerland. Education. — The city of Zurich is march- 

 ing in the same career as the capital of Argovie. Its citi- 

 zens have formed an association to which some bring the tri- 

 bute of mere scientific knowledge, and others the needful pe- 

 cuniary aid for the support of a Technological College, 

 where at the age of 16 years, are received the pupils of 

 other schools, who abandon their classical studies to devote 

 themselves more especially to commerce and the arts of life. 

 It is only since the commencment of the present year, that 

 this Institution has been open, and it already includes some 

 of the most skillful professors of the canton. 



The Instruction is divided into two classes ; the first com- 

 prehends commercial arithmetic and logarithms, applied ge- 

 ometry, practical mechanics, an abridged history of the three 

 kingdoms of nature ; geography, physical and mathemati- 

 cal ; natural philosophy ; technology ; statistics, commercial 

 and manufacturing, of different nations ; the German and 

 French languages ; calligraphy ; Drawing ; and manual exer- 

 cises in different trades. 



The second class are taught algebra, trigonometry, the- 

 oretical mechanics, zoology, mineralogy, botany, applied 

 chemistry, descriptive geometry, civil architecture, commer- 

 cial law, the art of modelling, and German, French, Italian 

 and English literature. Thus, the impulse given in England 

 and France, by a few philanthropists, is communicated by 

 degrees, to various parts of the continent ; Lausanne, Berne, 

 Geneva and Basle, have already technological Institutes for 

 youth, or Scientific courses, brought to the level of the com- 

 prehension of ordinary adult workmen. These beneficent 

 creations, besides yielding the happiest fruits to the soil where 

 they are already transplanted, cannot fail to extend the in- 

 fluence of good examples to the neighboring cantons, which 

 include a numerous manufacturing population, worthy of en- 

 joying the zeal of the philanthropists. — Idem. 



8. French Institute, July 9, 1827. — Cuvier T. Cordier 

 made a report on a memoir of Constant Prevost, entitled : 

 Geological examination of this question ; Have the conti- 

 nents which we inhabit, been, at various times submerged by the 

 sea ? The author arrives at this first conclusion ; " The coun- 

 tries which are occupied by alluvium (terrain de transport) 

 and sediments, have been covered by the waters during all 

 the times that these deposits required. Supposing that in 



