7 800.} 
the pupils had actually learned ce deal. 
The Journal d écele polytechniqu&e contains 
the decrees relative to the {choul, the plan 
ef the leftures delivered there, and dil-' 
fertations written by the profeffors and 
pupils. , 
LETTER Vis SCHOGLS for the PUBLIC 
SERVICE. 
(Ecoles de ferwice publique, ou Ecales d’ 
application). Only fuch as have gone 
through the examination at the polytechnic 
fchool, and have there been found fuff- 
ciently qualified, can be admitted into one 
of thefe fchools, where the pupils imme- 
diately receive a falary $ ard are thence, 
as occafions prefent themfelves, promoted 
to offices in the public fervice. The 
fchools are: 1. Lhe fehools jor voauds and 
bridges. Trudaine was, in the time of the 
monarchy, the firft founder of this {chool; 
and Perronet contributed confiderably to 
its imprevement : their bufts are there- 
fore placed in the hall of the {chool. » The 
colleétion of models is excellent, and weil 
arranged. The library confifts of about 
2500 volumes of mathematical works, 
chiefly treating, of hydrottatics, hydrau- 
lics, and of the conftruction of high ‘roads, 
bridges, canals, &c. | The 
pupils was 50, of whom 36 receive an- 
nually $40 francs. . The courfe of in- 
ftruciion laits commonly two years, and 
at the end of it the fudents undergo‘a 
probationary examination, being obliged to 
folve praétical queftions, and execute 
models of works propoled to them as a 
tafk, of which performances Mr. B. {aw 
faire beautiful fpecimens. Chezy “and 
Prony were direétors, and Le Sage in- 
fpector, of this excellent inftitution. 2. 
The School of the Mines. It has a beau- 
tiful, large, and rich collection of mine- 
vals, which fills fix large rooms. ‘There 
is likewife a good colleétion of def igns and 
models of pifs and of the inftruments and 
machinery) neceffary for the working of 
mines. The pupils amount to 20. The 
excellent laboratory is under the care of 
Vauquelin, who has here, in conjunétion 
with Fourcroy, made fo many important 
difcoveries in the new chemifiry. The 
two fifters of the latter, who affift their 
brother and Vauquelin in their chemical 
operations, fhewed the laboratory to Mr. 
Buege. Hauy, who is fuperintendant of 
the colleétion of minerals, is employed in 
compofing a large and complete minera- 
wlogy, in. which the diftinguifhing charac- 
teriftics of each mineral with regard to 
external appearance, or to the forms of 
the cryitals, or its chemical analyfis and 
MONTHLY MAG. NO, 59s 
Abfirad of Profeffor Buggé’s “fourney to Paris. 
number of 
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component parts, are indicated. He pofs 
feffes two {mall inftruments, to determine 
fmall degrees of magneti(m and eleétricity. 
This fchool is intended to be'only a theo~ 
retical {chool ; 
inftituted at Giromagry in the department. 
of the Upper Rhine, in the vicinity of 
mines. But till it can be organifed, the 
école de mines in Paris, is fo conttituted, 
as to be at the fame time a practical 
febool. ‘The tchool of the mines publithes 
the Journal des Mines. 3. Vhe geogra- 
phical fchool, wader the direction ef Prony, 
confifis ef 20 pupils, who are lkewife 
felegted from thole who have finifhed the 
courfe ftudies in the polytechni en fichools 
All the knowledge requifite for compofing 
of plans and maps, is here taught ; and 
the pupils aie exaniined before thei dif 
miffion. 4. The /chool of Naval Archi- 
teciure (Ecole des ingemeurs de vaijeaux) 
exilted in Paris long before the revolution; 
and the directors admitted into it whom- 
foever they pleafed: but in 1798 it was 
decreed, that none fhould be eligible, but 
fuch as had ftudied in the. polytechnic 
{chool. Bach pupil receives an annual 
ftipend of 1500 francs. Every year five 
pupils may be admitted from private 
docks, who are inftruéied in the proper 
manner of conftruéting merchant-fhips.—— 
Borda and Dudin were the’ directors; 
Laplace is examiner; Filz, profeffor of 
mathematics; and Pomet, profeffor’ of 
naval architecture. Deparcieu teaches 
here experimental phyfics, and. Fourcroy 
chemiltry. Mr. B. contiders the inftruce 
tion of the two laft profeflors fuperfluous, 
as the pupils had already twice attended 
lectures on thefe {ciences, in the central 
and polytechnic fchools. 5. The /chools of 
gungery. he large preparatory {chool 
ts at Chalons fur- Marne, and 1s under 
the direétion,of a chief of brigade, and 
of a chief of battalion. The profeffors 
are, two cap os of arallery, two feat 
ers of natural philolophy, two teachers of 
per henacies, two teachers of fortification, 
and a drawing-mafter. Laplace is ex. 
aminer.. The pupils who intend to ferve 
in the corps.of artillery, muft. ftudy at 
leaft two years in the pile: hnie {chool 3 
and are, after having undergone a pr oha- 
tionary examination, appointed to the re- 
giments of artillery, and obliged to purfue, 
the ftudy cf their art in the /chools of ap- 
all ot the regiments. Thele {chools 
of application aie eftablifhed at La Fere, 
Befangon, _ Grenoble, Metz, Strafburg, 
Douvai, and Auxonne: in each of them is 
a profefflor of mathematics, a repeater, 
and a drawing-mafer. Two more {uch 
3M {chools 
a pracical one is to be 
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