PHMologüal Papers,

Püblish'd and Dispers’dI N T H E

PHILOSOPHICAL

Transactions and Collections,

ABR I D G’D;

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Dilpos’d linder General Heads.

C H A P. I.

P byfiology.

Meteorology. Pneumaticks.

I- ^ H E Academie des Sciences has lately received great SplendourI by the Regulations, Incouragement, and Orders, M, Uabbe

-E- Bignon has obtained to ic from the King. That Academy is

now composedof xo Honorary Academicians , which are chofen Learnedand Eminent Gentlemen ; of 8 Strangers Associates , which äre distin-guifhed by their Learning; Twenty Penßoners Fellows, Twenty Eleves,and Twelve French Ajfociates, who are divided into 6 Classes, vir.Geometricians, Astronomers, Mechanicians, Anatomists, Chymists andBotanists. '

Out of the Honorary Academicians, two are Elected every Year, onefor President, the other for Vice-President; only Twenty Penßoners haveevery Year i yoö French Livers ; and after the Death of one Penßoner,the Academy will propofe to the King 3 Perlons Ajjociates, or Eleves, orsometime others; and his Majesty will call one of the three for Penftoner.

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The New Regn-latim of the A-cademie desSciences atParisj by M.Geoffroy. n.*J 7 - p. I44.