1796.) 
The RepuBrican Lyceum was 
founded in the year 1785, and may be 
faid to bear fome refemblance to the Arhe- 
wlan Portico, where the moft learned phi- 
lofophers lectured in their refpective 
branches of learning. The general plan 
of this Lyceum is by no means fo com- 
rehenfive as that of the Lyceum of Arts, 
eing folely appropriated to the culture 
of the f{ciences., The courfes are of 
eight months’ duration. One night in 
every decade is allotted to extraordinary 
fittings. The ladies, in numerous parties, 
frequent this Lyceum. There is a par- 
ticular hall in it, with mufical. infru- 
ments, for their accommodation. There 
ig alfo a le€ture-hall, a converfation-hall, 
and a library. 
The following is a lift of the profeffors, 
in their refpeétive faculties : 
Phyfics, DEPARCIEUX, 
Literature, ’ La Harper, 
Zoology, BRoGNIART, 
Phyfiology, Sur 
' The Arts, HaAssENFRATZ, 
Hiftery, GARAT. 
Chemittry, Fourcroy. 
TONNELIER, 
. Geography, MENTELLE, 
Rural Economy SILVESTRE, 
Philofophical Grammar, Sicarp, 
Mineralogy, 
{ 
‘Declamation, Moré. 
Tralian Language, BoLDont. 
Eaglith Language, RoBERT. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST AND 
SECOND PUBLIC SITTINGS OF THE 
LYCEUM OF ARTS, AT Paris. 
Av the FIRST PUBLIC SITTING of 
the Lyceum of Arts, held on the 3oth 
Germinal (April 19) DarceT madea 
report concerning feveral manufaétories 
eftablifhed by citizen OLiIvreR, in the 
Fauxbourg of St. Antoine. Among the 
valuable articles he manufactures, is a 
new kind of earthen-ware, of the moft 
beautiful colours ; ornaments of metallic 
éarth, as fonorous as bronze ; black por- 
eclain, equal to Englith, for Etrufcan 
vafes; and glazed earthen-ware, which 
is not fubject to crack, proper for the 
common purpofes of the kitchen. He 
alfo gave an account of a new procefs 
which will exempt all manufa€torics of 
¢arthen-ware from the ruinous carriage 
and expenfive ufe of the Nevers fand, 
hitherto deemed indifpenfable. A crown 
was adjudged to him as the reward of 
Ais labours. 
MALHERBE made a report concern- 
gag the invention of an economical ime. 
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thod of fpinning, in country placcs, and 
concerning an improvement of the dou- 
ble crane, proper for unloading ships ia 
port, both by citizen TREMELLE, He 
obtained a medal. 
Le GrancGe and VAUQUELIN made 
a report concerning SEGUIN’s new way 
of tanning, by means of which the fame 
operations may be performed for the beft 
kinds ef leather in a decade or two, that 
ufed to require two or three years. The 
manufactory of the above-mentioned 
artift, eftablifhed at Sevres, is now capa- 
ble of tanning, every year, #fiy thoufand 
ox-hides and two hundred thoufand calf- 
fkins, befides dogfkins and horfe-hides. 
Two or three others, upon the fame plan, 
are already fet up in different depart- 
ments. A crown was adjudged to citizen 
SEGUIN. 
A report was made by DEsaupRay, 
concerning the art of dividing {warms of 
bees, of removing them eight or ten 
Icagues without deranging them, of in- 
uring them to different climates, of part- 
ing the hives at will, and and of clean. 
ing and emptying them without killing 
or hurting their inhabitants ; by citizen 
BarRpown, a farmer. Rewarded with a 
medal. 
Some new experiments of Four- 
CROY and VAUQUELIN, upon the means 
of producing detonation by  contaét, 
(détonation par le choc) were executed 
by LeGraNGE, upon mixtures of fuper- 
oxvygenated muriate of pol-afo, with f{ul- 
phur and charcoal. The effects of thefe 
experiments were terrible enough to 
ferve as a leffon of prudence to thofe 
who may be defirous of operating upon 
the fame fubftances. Time and expe 
rience alone can teach us the ufeful pur- 
pofes to which the above mixturcs may 
be applied. hes 
Inthe sECOND PUBLIC SITTING of 
the zoth Prairial (June 8) a report was 
made by LEFEBURE concerning fome 
improvements made by citizen Ja BARIN, 
in Faucanfon’s reel for winding of the lk 
from the cocoous.—A medal. 
A report was made, by Brenaime, 
Upen citizen SAuMON’s fimplification of 
the hand-mill for grinding corn, and 
another, by Dizk, upon an incorruptible 
cement, or.plafter (maflic incorruptible ) 
for privies, refervoirs of water, and ftonge 
terraces, invented by citizen Paroissp, 
who, as well as citizen Saumon, was re- 
warded with a medal, The reft of the 
firting was of little -importance to the 
arts. 
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