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AT its annual public meeting on Nov. 25 last the French Academy of Sciences awarded its prizes for the years 1870 and 1871. M. Faye gave a brief introductory addres?, in which he touchingly alluded to the misfortunes to science arising from the late war, to the various preparations for the forthcoming transit of Venus, the metric commission, and other matters of scientific interest. It is on account of the war that at this annual meeting the Academy had to award prizes for two years, namely, for 1870 and 1871. The list of prizes was as follows:—
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Prizes of the French Academy of Sciences . Nature 7, 86–87 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/007086d0
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