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: ; \ OF THE ' 
THIRD PUBLIC SITTING OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION 
Held at Paris, on the 15th VENDEMIAIRE, Correfponding to the 6th of 
OCTOBER, 1796. 
| , ine at : icription of the In- 
The readers of the Monthly Magazine are fuppofed to have perufed the deicription o 
. ftitution, whofe discestia we here detail, in page 11g of our Mifcellany, for the month of 
March. 
and time of meeting; together witha complete lift of the refidentiary members. 
In that place are enumerated the objects of its clafles and {ections, and the place 
In page 632, 
of No. VIII, we alfo laid before them a comprehenfive and interefling analyfis of the proceed= 
ings of the firft and fecohd public fittings of the Inftitute. DO} 
if Refpecting this Inftitution, tne refult of whofe 
have been exclufively noticed in this Publication, it is fcarcely neceffary for 
tranfactions at their laft or third fitting. 
labours 
We now proceed to exhibit the 
us to add any thing to imprefs on our readers juft ideas of its importance. ] 
EE 
The Hall in which this learned body holds its 
public meetings, is fituated in the palace of 
the Louvre, and was formerly eccupicd as 
a depofit of antiquities. Thefe public fittings 
are held in it four times in every year, on the 
15th of the firf{ month of each of the feafons. 
| It is of an oblong form, and built in the very 
beft ftyle of archite€ture. ‘Between the pil- 
lars which adorn it, have been placed exqui- 
fite marble ftatues of illuftrious Frenchmen. 
One of the extremities formsa faloon, around 
which are arranged other ftatues of their great 
writers, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, La Fon- 
taine, Montefquieu, and others; and in the 
middle is an antique figure of Minerva. At 
the other extremity are four caryatides, chef 
a@auvres, by Goujeon, which fupport the 
Rostrum. For the accommodation of the 
public, the circumference is furnifhed with a 
double row of commodious feats, which are 
feparated from the interior of the hall by a 
wooden partition, Within this partition are 
two other rows of feats, for the 144 members 
of the Inftitute, and thofe of the affociates who 
‘may be at Paris. The tables, which are alfo 
in two rows, are of oak, {upported by bronzed - 
griffins. At ope extremity are the feats for 
the prefident of the Inftitute and the fecreta- 
ries, and oppofite to thefe are feats for the 
directory. The tout enfemble is excecdingly 
fimple and dignified, ang the effect is greatly 
improved when the hall is illuminated, 
eee fitting was opened by the notice 
that LEBRETON, the fecretary of 
the clafs of the Moral and Political 
Sciences, had completed the labours which 
have occupied that clafs fince the laft fit-. 
ting, onthe x5th of Mefiidor, 
CABONIS, who in the firf and previ- 
ous quarterly fitting, had commenced his 
lecture of General Confiderations on the 
Study of Man and on the Relations of 
his phyfical Organization with his moral 
aad intelle&tus!} Faculties, announced his 
progrefs in the fame. The points ega- 
blifhed by him, tended to fhow, that the 
two great branches which make up the 
{cience of man, are parts of the fame 
trunk, and that this trunk refolves itfel£ 
into the knowledge of the phyfical facul- 
ties of man: that the ancient philofo. 
phers, whocultivated rational philofophy 
according to its original principles, were 
either phyfiologifts or phyficians: that 
the modern philofophers who have 
regenerated and ftamped upon it a cha- 
racter of practical utilty, which, till their 
time, it never had, have introduced into 
the ttudy of medicine and phyficlogy, 
their leading principles and ideas. He 
had previouily communicated to the In- 
ftitute, his remarks on phyfiological 
fubjeéts ; which may be referred to the 
analyfis of fenfations, and to morals,under 
the following heads: 1{t, Hiftory of Sen- 
fations. 2d, Influence of Conttituticnal 
Habits. 3d, Influence of Ages. ath, In- 
fluence of Sexes. sth, Analyfis of Sym- 
pathy. 6th, Philofophical Hygiene.—. 
7th, The Influence of Medicine on Me: 
Tals: 
De Lititz pE SaLre read a frag. 
ment from a curious work, entitled “The 
Code of Happinefs.” 
Ra@DERER communicated fome ob. 
fervations on the two principles of 
which the paffion of love confifts, viz. 
defire and curiofity ; on two other prin- 
ciples, relative to the focial affections, 
imitation and habit; on the return of 
the armies at the peace, andon the pre- 
tended danger from their being difbanded 
at that time. 
BauDIN DES ARDENNES, prefented 
a memoir on popular Ciups, in which 
he controverts the principle, that the 
tribunefhip is a neceffary inftitution in 
the French nation, and that clubs are 
hot competent to execute that funétion, 
as it exifted in the Roman republic. 
DYANIERE, an affociate, tranfmitted 
twe memoirs ; in which he demonftrated, 
that 








