1796. 
covery of a certain fandard for French 
meafurements. He is in poffeffion of all 
the new infrumerts, which were exe- 
cuted under the infpedctiohn of Borda, La- 
voifier, and Lenoir, in the courte of lait 
year, with a degree of genius and pre 
cifion which will furpafs thote 2 
conftructed in England, when Mae fden, 
the-optician, and general Roy, wilhed to 
leave France behind ia this {pecies of at- 
tainment. 
The citizen Darquier, who has fittedup 
an obfervatory at Touloufe, and already 
puolifhed two volumes of Remarks, con- 
tinues his labours with unremitting zeal. 
This able adronomer is fo fituated as to 
be ablexto contemplate the ftars at thofe 
times when we are prevented, by bad 
weather, both at London and Paris, from 
having even a glimpfe of them. 
The obfervatory built at Touloufe by 
Garipuy, has been entrufted to the care 
ef citizen Vidal, who is a man of talents. 
Citizen Dac-la-Chapelle, who has 
caufed an Obfervatory GO" DE “erected at 
Montauban, a place enjoying a ferene 
_fky, which enables him to obferve Mer- 
cury at the meridian, when he is not 
vifible to us at Paris, continues to tranf- 
mit interefting obfervations to me. iis 
zeal and affiduity, added tothe uf 
makes of his fortune, at an age when 
other young men think only of thcir 
pleafures, are. exceedingly edifying. 
The’ ‘citizens’, :5. See and Thulis, 
direétors of the Naval Gb ofervatory, at 
Miarfeilles, have Ait communicated their 
remarks ;: they have obferved feve- 
“ral eclipfes of the flars, which we could 
not difcover here. 
The tables of logarithms, of which 
Jom yert and Caller gaye an $vo edition, 
in 1733, beine now fcarce, Firmin Di. 
dora diftinguilhed printer, aififted DY 
Callet, profeflor of mathematics, is pub- 
iithing a new edition, at the expence of 
the Republic. ..As a fufiicient ee 
i 
type hac been procured from the Na- 
fone foundry, all the forms have been 
preferved, a and they are care Fully fo dered 
underneat o to prevent accidents, while 
in the prefs. 
The cemmittee of public inftruction 
belonging to the National Convention, 
interefts itfelf greatly in the progrefs of 
aftronomy, and the organization of the 
obfervatories of the Republic. Thole of 
Marfeilles, Touloufe, Montauban, Mont- 
pellier, Bourdeaux, Breft, Strafburg, 
Lyons, and that which I have caufed to 
be built at Bourg-en-Brefle, will be 
rendered highly ‘ufeful, throuch the 
attention i this committee, and 
MontTantywMas. No. VII. 
Lalande’s Eiffory of A@ronomy, 17 94. 
itoring, fo, as to, add to the 
$53 
efpecially of citizen rene he has 
proved himfelf she friend of aftronomers. 
He had before merited the efieem of the 
learned, by the benefits he conferred on 
the ie academy of {ciences, which he 
fupported and defended, and which he 
will, perhaps, have the pristatvion of re- 
glory of 
Trance, and the pappingts of mankind. 
The office of confultation, charged 
with the tak of diftributing a hundred 
thoufand crowns, by way of i recompence, 
to artifts,‘has diftinguithed the citizens 
Carochez. Fortin, Lenoir, Haupois; the 
citizens Grateloup, and Putois, who have 
made improvements in the achromatic 
telefcopes, have alfo been rewarded for 
their labours. 
The Lyceum of Arts, although un- 
provided with pecuniary refources, has 
contributed to the general emulation, by 
conterri ing crowns and medals on 
learned men and diftinguithed artifts, in 
the prefence of crowded and brilliant af- 
femblies ; among thole noticed by it are, 
Carochez, Fortin, Lenoir, and. the 
La 
male citizen, Le Frangois, who has cal- 
culated 300 pages of the horary tables 
for the marine. 
The citizen Callon, a deputy to the 
Convention, has formed a Complete Na- 
tional Mufeum of Geography, under 
the aufpices of the Republic, and em- 
ployed the citizens Mechain, Laplace, 
Delambre, Goffelin, Rofiily, &c. to 
fuperintend it. Befides a continuation of 
the labours about the meridian, he has 
taken the neceflary meafures to procure 
a variety of knowledge refpecting Afia, 
and to perfeét geography in all its 
branches; a circumitance far from being 
une nee d with aitronomy. . This trea- 
fre is to be enriched with the: charming 
collection of ancien and modern ¢harts,: 
both French and foreign, left by Dan- 
ville, which is at pr Ase depofited at the: 
late office for foreign affairs at Verfailles. 
Crxtizeng 1 eilier, in. w hofe cuftouy it is, 
is employed in drawing uP a catalogue, 
and he has already enumerated 7oco 
articles. 
Citizen Perney, pro tempore direftor of: 
of the obfervatery of the Republic, has, 
publifhed a_ report, delivered at the 
Lyceum, refpeéting the univerfal in@ru 
ment of citizen Hautpois, which ie 
been purchafed, for 10,000 livres, for: 
the Obfervatory. 
Our communications with foreion 
countries have been fufpended by the 
war; but by means of the neutral (tates, 
and more éfpecially by the zeal of M. 
Zach, I have been enabled to procure 
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