The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

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TRIAL STAKES.

Sedbury
Ardour
Fadladeen

• • •

Fourteen ran.
LATEST BETTING.
ASCOT STAKES.
4to 1 agst Linda
7to 1 agst Compromise
Bto 1 agst Accurate
10 to 1 agst Princp of Denmark
Arrived—Marseillaise.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1859.

JUNE.
Manchester l6 I Odiham 28
Hampton 22 Bibury Club 29
Newton ..22 Stockbridge 3O
Newcastle 28

Winchester 'l
Carlisle
Newmarket July 5
Worcester Summer 7
Abingdon 12

Liverpool July 13
Nottingham 19
Stamford 2l
I Marlborough
Goodwood 26
,UST.

York August l7
Egha 23
Radcli e 23
Stockton 25
Lichfield 29
Derby 3l
MEIER.

Aud
Brighton
Brighton Club
Lewes
Wolverhampton 8
North Staffordshire
Reading lO

Warwick .
Doncaster .
Leicester .

SEPTE:

Richmond
Bedford ...

OCT,

Novi

Worcester Autumn 2

Monmouth 22
Manchester Autumn 23
Newmarket F.O 27
,BER.

I Newmarket 5.0.10
Newmarket H 24

Liverpool Autumn 9

PARIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

At the last sitting, M. Chasles communicated an
account of his efforts to recompose the three books
of Euclid, entitled Porisms. These three books are
lost; but there is an obscure notice of them in

Pappus, a geometrician of the 4th century, who
speaks of the work in the highest terms, declaring
it to be indispensable for geometrical investiga-
tions. Many mathematicians have since endea-
voured to discover what those Porisms were, for
the word itself was not clearly understood. Halley,
the celebrated astronomer, published the Greek
text of the work of Pappus relating to the matter,
and which was hitherto only known by the Latin
translation Commandinus ; but even this discovery
was not sufficient to unravel the mystery. Professor
Simon at length, after much study, explained three
of the propositions contained in Pappus's enuncia-
tions ; and there was accordingly now some hope
of arriving at Euclid's 171 propositions. But the
question made little progress, and it is therefore
not without interest that the academy learnt from
M. Chasles that he had succeeded in reconstruct-
ing, as nearly as possible, the whole of the three
lost books of Euclid. M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire read
an account of an acephalous kid, lately born in the
department of La Sarthe, and now sent to the
Museum of Natural History by M. Richard, the
postman at La Chatre, who had it stuffed at his
own expense for the purpose. This monstrous
birth bel,pngs to the Perachephalous genus ; it not
only does not present any vestige of the head or
neck, but even the thorax and the fore paws are
wanting. While the hoof of the right hind leg is
cloven in two, that of the left is cloven into three
parts; the tail is wanting.—M. de Tessan con-
cluded his remarks on the question relating to
the globules of clouds. Having shown in his
previous communications that the arguments in
favour of their hollowness were all doubtful, he
now discussed the argument on the other side, con-
tending that water being disseminated in the air
just as a salt, for instance, is disseminated in the
water which has dissolved it, there is no reason
why a hollow vesicle should be formed in the first
case, when it never occurs in the second.—M.
Lecoq was elected a correspondent in lieu of. M. 1
Bonpland. deceased, by 31 votes to 14, given to M.
Planchon.