The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-27 00:00:00

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

At the last sitting a paper, by a gentleman whose
name did not reach us, was received by the academy,
on a new system of perpetual motion. As this re-
markable lucubration is consigned, by the rules
of the academy, to an oblivion quite as perpetual as
the motion it treats of, we cannot but regret the
more our inability to hand down to posterity the
name of the distinguished inventor of the system in
question. M. d'Arjet sent in a paper on Euclid's
postulates. The extreme novelty of the subject,
which has not been fully treated of for the last
three centuries, would preclude us from doing it
justice in our columns, so that we must reluctantly
refer the reader to the Conzptes-Rendus for further
information. M. Jules Lefort communicated to
the academy a paper of some interest on the che-
mical history of humus, or the very complex active
principle of vegetable earth, or garden-mould.
The author endeavours to prove that it proceeds en:.
tirely from the basic transformation of cellulose,
which alone, in his opinion, produces the chemical
changes hitherto attributed to the principlds called
humic and hulmic acids.—A paper was received
from M. Lucas on the existence of the soul ; rather
an odd subject to be treated anatomically, for the
author of the paper devotes his time exclusively to
the study of the brain.—AL d'Archiac informed the
Academy that a considerable number of new
paleontological specimens bad arrived at the
Museum of the Garden of Plants, and gave some
information concerning them.—M. de QAttor. tbrFeeofacitie•aleaest.
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it affords new arguments in favour of the opinion
that man is not an offshoot of the monkey race—a
view, we suspect, our readers will have no objection
to endorse. —M. Leverrier announced, to the sur-
prise of several astronomers, that the lunar crater
Linnaeus, the disappearance of which had lately
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for the city. The speakers pointed out the anomalies of
the present system of distributing the parliamentary seats,
and the unsatisfactory nature of the Government proposals,
and they urged the claims which, on the score of popula-
tion, wealth, mercantile and trading position, &c., Bristol
has to an increased number of members. A petition to tho
House of Commons, setting- forth those points, was adopted,
and is intended to support Mr. Berkeley, who has, on the
recommendation of Mr. Gladstone, given notice of his in.
tontiou to move for a third member for Bristol,

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 18G7.

It is a wearisome task to follow the course of the
Prussians, but it will not do to pass over their acts
altogether in silence, while some mistaken indi-
viduals, and other perverse ones, persist in lauding
their efforts and magnifying their achieyernents. If