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As already briefly announced in these columns, the Institute of France will celebrate its centenary next October. The programme of the fêtes which have been organised in connection with that event has just been sent to the Members and Correspondants of the Institute, the intention being that the centenary shall be marked by a reunion of all the men of light and leading who belong to the Institute. On the afternoon of October 23, there will be a reception in the Palais de I'Institut of the Foreign Associates and Correspondants and of French Correspondants, and in the evening the Minister of Public Instruction will hold a reception. On October 24, a meeting will be held in the Great Hall of the Sorbonne, at which the President of the Republic will attend. Discourses will be delivered by the President of the Institute, the Minister of Public Instruction, and M. Jules Simon. A banquet, to which all the Associates and Correspondants are invited, will take place on the evening of the same day. On October 25, there will be a special performance at the Comédie Française, and a reception will be held by the French President. The celebration will be concluded on October 26, by a visit to the Château de Chantilly. It will be seen from this that the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Institute of France will be celebrated in a manner worthy of the high position which the Institute holds among the world's societies of science, art, and literature.