1796. | 
French revolution, read a memoir on the 
politics of Ariftotle; principally drawa 
up im the prifon wherein he had been 
thrown by the tywant Robefpterre. 
Laneuss read feveral obfervations 
on the paper money which has been ufed 
in Afi. 
vulgar gra, bonds were circulated in 
India on the fecurity of the domains of 
the prince, which were nothing more 
than refcriptions, or anticipations. “To- 
wards the end of the thirteenth century, 
the Chinefe emperor iffued a paper mo- 
ney fimilar to the Frenchatfiignats, which 
was afterwards imitated by a defcendant 
ef Ghengis Khan, who reigned at Tau- 
ritz. But the paper monies of Pekin 
and ‘Tauritz, had but a fhort and feeble 
fuccefs ; they became'at length of much 
lefs value,than the Chinefe paper hang- 
ings. | 
The fame member tranflated the Gu- 
liftan of the poet Saady, and read feveral 
fragments ot his works to the clafs, as 
well as the extraét of a life of this great 
poet, written by a learned Periian bio- 
grapher. 
| Levesque read a memoir on the 
progrefiive improvement of the art of 
painting among the Grecks. 
_. MoncGez decided from a particular 
paflage of Valerius, that Cacholoug, a 
{pecies of opal ot Chalcedon, made ufe of 
by the Calmucks in the formation of their 
vales and idels, was the matter of which 
they anciently manufactured the va/a 
myrrbina 19 coftly and fo celebrated at 
Rome. The cacholoug appears to be a 
girafol, with a larger mixture of argilla- 
ceous earth. Phe fubfiance of it, accord- 
\ ing to him, is neither porcelain, myrrh, 
“nor benzoin, but muft be traced into the 
mineral kingdom. ; 
LEGOGVE, an affociated member, 
read to the clafs a piece of poetry 
‘en burials. ' 
WIONveEL, celebrated for his abili- 
ties as a theatrical writer and performer, 
has alfo difplayed equal talents as a writer 
@f apologues. He read tothe clafs feve- 
ral fables. 
Fonranes prefented,to the clafs a 
philofophical difquifirion on the ancient 
Gauls, who had no kings, were govern- 
ed by chiefs of their own eleétion, and 
judged only by their peers: and who 
made themfelves. mafters of all the Ro- 
man territory, and even of Rome itfelf, 
except the Capitol. 
Ducis prefented an epiftle, tending 
to throw a ftigma upon celibacy. 
MontTHLiy Mae. No. &. 
Proceedings of the Inftitute of Arts and Sciences. 
More than acentury before the 
795 
DOMERGUE, in a differtation, entitled 
Toéorie dela Propofition, deduced the ina 
conteftible truth,” that grammar ought 
to be a {peaking logic. 
DUTHEIL examined, in a_ critical 
Memoir on the Divorce of Philip-Au- 
gultus with Ilgelberga, a Danith prin« 
cefs, the political relation fubfifting be- 
tween the French and the Northern na- 
tions in the 12th and 13th centuries.— 
On this occafion he entered intoa de- 
{cription of the flourifhing condition of 
the fchools at Paris at that period. Pu- 
pils atrended them from all parts of Eu- 
rope. MoncGez concluded his report for 
this clafs, by prediéting the much more 
extenfive fuccefs which the Parifian 
fchools will attain under the aufpices of 
liberty. And the moment, fays ‘he, is 
at no great diftance, when Kurope wilh 
pay the fame tribute to the fame {chools : 
very thing concurs to render Paris the 
centre of the arts and fciences. 
In the clafs of Phyjical and Mathema- 
tical Scvences, FORFAIT, a non-refident 
affociate, prefented the interefting detail 
of experiments made by order of the go- 
vernment on the navigation of the Seine 
from Paris to the Sea. The Salmon, a luge 
ger of 14 guns, being 75 feet in length, 
18 in width, 8 in depth, and in perteét 
condition to keep the fea, has completed 
her paflage from Havre to Paris: with 
a draught of 6% feet water the might 
have carried 180 tons; fhe was, how- 
ever, only laden with 7o tons, and drew 
in the courie of the experiment but 44 
feet ; the actual depth of the Seine be- 
ing never lefs than 5 3 f-et, fhe might 
lave carried, witout inconvenience, 
104 tons.—FoRFAIT concludes that vef= 
{els may be conitruéted with mags on 
hinges, of 200 tons burthen, and draw- 
ing 6 feet water, capable of navigating 
at all-times, which, with 6 men and 6 
horfes, might proceed from Havre to Pa- 
ris ia ro days, cn aplan much more eco« 
nomical than is now practiled. 
Prony recited a memoir on the 
means of converting cor.tinued circu- 
lar movements into re¢lilinear alcernare 
ones. 
DELAMBRE tranfinitted a farther dew 
tail of the difpefitions he had made for 
mealuring, during the remainder of the 
feafon, an arch of the meridian, fituated 
between the parallels of Bourges and 
DD’ Hermant, a town in the department 
of Puy-de-Dome. This work completed, 
there will only remain, next {pring, from 
fix to-eignt triangles to be mealured, ta 
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