382 NOTES. 
Tue Frencn AssocIration for the Advancement of Science.— 
We copy the following from an extended notice in ‘ Nature,” as 
showing the high stand the French Association has taken, and the 
cordial support it has received, and also as containing sugges- 
tions that the American Association might, with proper modifica- 
tions, follow to great advantage :— 
volume „930 pages, aira upwards of 200 papers, ad- 
dresses and lectures on a wide variety of subjects, connected wit 
science, p or applie The vol is also well illustrated, 
ceedings. 
The French Association, as our readers no doubt know, made a 
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membres fondateurs, who subscribe one or more shares of the cap- 
ital of the Association, a share amounting to 500 francs; there 
are about 250 m of this class, some of whom have sub- 
the Association possessed a capital of eat 140,000 francs, and 
an annual revenue of more than 16,000 fra 
The F French ape is + modelled prety closely afte 
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theory and of “the o i of their oe applications” 
tures, publications, and donations of a or money to 
persons engaged in scientific researches; It appeals for help to 
all those ‘who believe that the cultivation of science is necessary 
to the greatness and the prosperity of the country.’ 
The cosy is divided into four groups, and each group into 
several section the groups are—1. The Mathematical Sci- 
ences; 2. Physical and Chemical Sciences; 3. Natural Sciences j 
4. Econo omic Sciences. The French Association devotes mo 
tention to the paea application of scientific principles aei 
does the British one; the 1st group, for example, including See 
tions of Navigation and of Civil and Militar y Engineering : "e 
s group including the Medical Sciences, and t e 4th group Ag 
