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it. But the committee, not having been able to verify the 

 principal facts announced, in a satisfactory manner, have de- 

 ferred the definitive judgement till the next year, reserving to 

 Dr. Lippi the right of competition. 



2. The Montyon prize for the Perfecting of the Healing Art. 

 The examination by the Academy has been confined to the 

 facts published between July 1821 and the end of the year 

 1825. By the unanimous advice of the committee, it has been 

 determined not to award the grand prizes for 1825, but to take 

 from the sum destined for this double object 16,000 francs, 

 for the purpose of distribution, by way of encouragement, in 

 the following manner. In Medical Science : 2000 francs to 

 M. Louis, for his anatomical and pathological researches on 

 phthisis. The Academy mentions with praise the zeal and 

 devotion of Dr. Bailly, in his researches on the pernicious 

 fevers of the environs of Rome ; and also of MM. Audouard 

 and Lassis, who have undertaken a series of researches to ex- 

 amine the causes of the yellow fever and of contagious diseases. 

 For Surgery : the sum of 6000 fr. to M. Civiale, who has pub- 

 lished several important memoirs on lithontripty, or the me- 

 thod of breaking vesical calculi, and who has made a great 

 number of successful operations by its means : — 2000 fr. to each 

 of the following physicians : viz. Dr. Amussat, author of a 

 very remarkable memoir on the structure of the urethra; Dr. 

 Heurteloup, author of a memoir on the extraction of calculi 

 through the urethra, who has also ingeniously perfected the 

 necessary instruments ; Dr. J. Leroy, of Etiolles, who published 

 a work on the same subject in 1825, and first made known, in 

 1822 the instruments he invented and has since endeavoured 

 to perfect ; and Dr. Delean, for having improved the cathe- 

 terism of the Eustachian tube, and cured by this means several 

 persons affected by that rare cause of deafness. 



3. The Academy has not found any work to merit the 

 Montyon prize, for the Discovery of the Means of lessening 

 the Insalubrity of an Art or Trade. 



4. The Delalande prize in Astronomy has been awarded to 

 the work recently published by Captain Sabine, under the 

 title of " An Account of Experiments to determine the figure 

 of the earth by means of the pendulum vibrating seconds in 

 different latitudes," London, 1825 ; which contains the results 

 of numerous observations with the pendulum, made in the 

 northern hemisphere, from Spitsbergen to the Portuguese 

 island of St. Thomas. 



The following prizes were proposed at this sitting of the 

 Academy: 1. Prize in Physics for 1827; for a general and 

 comprehensive history of the circulation of the blood in the 



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