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AS our readers are aware, the Paris Academy of Sciences holds at the end of December each year a solemn meeting for hearing éloges of the departed members, and delivering prizes to the most deserving essayists. But owing to the calamity of the war the prizes for 1873 were distributed in the end of 1874, and the prizes for 1874 remained undistributed. An extraordinary solemnity was celebrated on June 21, for the distribution of the 1874 prizes, and henceforth we hope nothing will prevent the Academy fulfilling its yearly duties with punctuality. M. Bertrand, the new perpetual secretary, read an essay on the life and works of M. Élie de Beaumont, his predecessor in the office. Since Abbé Duhamel, the first of these perpetual secretaries, died, this has been the constant practice. So Abbé Duhamel was praised by Fonten elle, Fontenelle by Fouchy, Fouchy by Condorcet, &c. &c. But M. Élie de Beaumont did not produce any éloge on Arago; it will be the next duty M. Bertrand will have to perform, and a very attractive one it is. The following are the results of last year's competition as announced at the meeting:—
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Prizes of the French Academy . Nature 12, 177–178 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012177a0
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