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that the prohibitory regimen militates 
egainft every found principle of political 
economy. 
BOURGOING, an affociated member, 
tranimitted a practical memoir on Spa- 
nifh fheep, and on the beft means of 
naturaiizing them in France. 
ANQUETIL Yead three memoirs on 
hifttorical fubjeCts : the firit related to the 
Treaties which had becn made refpect- 
the Rhime, in 1651, 1658, and 1663, 
which refulted from the Treaty of Weft- 
phalia: the fecond .is an Introduction to 
the Hiftory of the Treaty of the Pyre- 
nées: the third is a fyllabus of much 
greater work, entitled, “: An Hiftori- 
cal Piéture of the World.” 
In conneétion with the laft memoir, 
Dupont dE Nemours prefented to the 
clafs, fome obfervations on, the part acted 
by the Serpent in moft of the oriental 
mythologics, and upon the fignification 
attached fo it. 
MeENTELLE prefented a feries of ufe- 
ful queftions relative to geography and 
ftateitics, to be vefolved by the corre- 
fpondents of the Taftitute, and by the 
agents of the republic in foreign coun- 
tries. 
GossELIn continued his elaborate re- 
fearches relative to the acquaintance of 
“ the ancients with the Arabian Gulph. 
Thofe communicated to him during this 
quarter, relate to the city of Tarihith, 
the rendezvous of the fleets of Solomon ; 
the expedition of A®lius Gallus into Ara- 
bia, under Augufius; the chronology of 
the Homerite kings, and the epoch of 
the Mareb deluge, fo famous among the 
Arabians. : 
FLEURIEU read a critical examina- 
tion of the relations of voyages made 
round the world in 1721 and 1722, by 
the Dutch Admiral Roggewien. ‘The 
voyages of this”navigator, which have 
hitherto been little underftood, are prov- 
ed to be of great confequence to geogra- 
phy, inthismemoir. -By comparing the 
ofition of Eafter ifland, as defcribed by 
the Dutch Admiral, with its exaé lati- 
tude and longitude, as fince aftronomi- 
cally determined by Cooke and La Pey- 
roule, Citizen Fleurieu makes it appear, 
that all the difcoveries claimed by Rog- 
gewien, are really founded in truth; that 
thefe difcoveries have efcaped the obfer- 
vations of the modern navigators ; that 
Eafer [land, notwithftanding the affer- 
tions of the Englifh geographers, 1s not 
Davis's [Rand; that ibe Labyrinth of Rogze- 
aviens isnot Commodore Byron's Prince of 
Wales’s Fond : that the Dutch Admira}’s 
Proceedings of the National Inflitution. 
‘gelo painted the Sixtine chapel, 
[ Nov, 
Archipelago de -Bowman;<is not Bougain- 
ville’s Archipelago des Navigaieurs; that 
the ifland fuppofed by Roggewien to be - 
the Cocos and Trait’ s Ifands of Le Marre 
and Schouten ate not thofe iflands: and 
that thofe of Thiexoven and Groningen can- 
not be the Sania Cruz of Meudana. 
VILLETERQUE, an affociated member, 
prefented an hypothefis on the phyfics 
of the terreftrial globe. 
THouret and MONTLINOT read 
two important memoirs; the one on 
foundlings, and the other on the moft 
proper bafis of furnifhing public fuccours. 
MonGEz, fecretary of the clafs of 
literature, and ibe polite arts, prefented 
the detail of the works fubmitted to this 
clafs by its members. : 
SIcARD read his memoir on the mode 
of inftruéting perfons born deaf and 
dumb. : 
PreyRE propofed fuchan arrangement 
of the plan of the LouvRE*, as 
that all tuture embellifthments and im- 
provements might be included within it. 
He propofed to place in the pavillion of 
the middle of the colonnade, a magnifi- 
cent ftaircafe, to lead toa gallery over the 
garden of the Infanta, between the ifoiat~ 
ed wall, conftruéted after the defign 
of Perrault, and that of the fagade of the 
Louvre; decorated by Lemercier. He 
propofes to open a public competition, in 
order to procure the beft plan of the gal- 
lery to be conftruéted on the fide of the 
ftrect St. Honore, parallel to that which 
terminates the Mufeum. 
In another memoir, the fame member 
proved, that the firft {chools of architec- 
ture fhould not be kept féparate from 
thofe of painting and feulpture. He re- 
called to recolleétion, that Michael An- 
en- 
graved the fuperb figures of the tomb of 
Juliusthe Second ; traced the fortifications 
of Florence, the cupola of St. Peter, the 
capitol, &c.; and that Raphael furnithed, 
with the fame hand which painted the 
transfiguration, a new plan for the da/- 
digue of St. Peter. ; 
CHENIER, read an imitation of a 
poem of Offian. 
BrrauBF, deprived of his penfions and 
revenues in Germany, on account of his 
attachment to the principles of the 
* This fuperb edifice, once the palace of the 
Kings of France, now claims the notice of Eu- 
rope, as the refidence of all te National 
Academies and as containing the rich Mufeum, 
to furnith and embellifa which, France and the 
neighbouring natious have fo largely contributed 
for the lait three yeats, ; 
French 
