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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS. 
Acts of the Geographical Society of Paris. 
Meeting of the 5th June 1829.—His Excellency the Minister of the Interior 
announced that the Commission of Arts and Sciences had given in a favourable 
report on the publications of the Society, and that he will have much pleasure in 
accomplishing the desires which have been expressed to him. 
The Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin wrote to the Society, offering it a 
copy of its Memoirs for the year 1825. 
M. de Navarette wrote from Madrid, to announce the transmission of the third 
volume of the Collection of ancient Spanish Navigators, published under his 
direction. 
Mr. Warden communicated a letter of Mr. Baradére, who had just arrived at 
Paris, with a precious collection of monuments relating to the ruins of Palenqua 
and Mitla, with other antiquities from Mexico, which he has collected during a 
residence of two years in the different states of the Mexican Republic. It is this 
traveller’s intention to submit his collection to the Society at its next meeting. 
Mr. John Jump, teacher of the English language, laid before the Society a 
model and description of an improvement in the construction of globes. Co- 
lonel Bonne was ordered to report upon it. 
_ Mr. Jomard announced to.the Assembly the arrival of six young Ethiopians, 
purchased by Mr. Drovetti, and sent into France to receive their education. 
They have been placed in two boarding-houses in the environs of Paris, and 
have already given proofs of their aptitude for learning, 
Mr. Barbié du Bocage read a notice of the Baloutches, written in 1811 by Mr. 
Raymond, French consul at Bagdad. 
Mr. Eyrie’s presented several notices on this subject, which were ordered to be 
given over to the committee of the Bulletin. 
Meeting of the 19th June 1829.—His Excellency the Minister of the Marine 
transmitted from Captain Sir John Franklin, a copy of his Narrative of a Second 
Expedition to the Polar Seas. His Excellency also transmitted a volume of the- 
Memoirs of the Royal Society of London. 
The Society formed at London for the encouragement of translations of Oriental 
Literature, addressed to the Society a copy of its first publication, containing the 
Voyages of Ybn Batouta. 
Mr. de Larenaudiere offered to the Society his notice on the life and works of 
Mr. Pacho. 
' Mr. Barbié du Bocage presented, in the name of Mr. Rey, a map of ancient 
Arabia and of the Red Sea, published in 1829 by Mr. Frederick Campe. Mr. 
Rey also laid before the Assembly Reichardt’s map of Gaul, in which the 
anthor has traced the road followed by Annibal, and the Roman roads from the 
itineraries of Antonine and the tables of Peutinger. 
Mr. Cadet of Metz reported on Mr. Delcros’ notice on the secondary forma~ 
tions of the chain of Sainte-Victoire, and the environs of Aix. 
Mr. Brué read a note upon the tables of geographical positions, addressed to 
the Society, in one of its last meetings, by Mr. Thomas. 
Mr. Baradére exhibited a collection of drawings, representing the antiquities 
of old Palenqua and of Mitla, amounting to 145, collected during several expe- 
ditions made in 1807 and in 1808, by order of the King of Spain. 
Mr. Jomard mentioned that Dr. Fr. Corroy, director of the hospital of 
Tabasco, was about to depart for the ruins of Palenqua. 
Mr. Barbié du Bocage read a notice by Mr. Rifaud on his discoveries made 
at Koum-Medinet-el-Farés, the ancient capital of Fayoum. 
