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IT will be remembered that the Paris Academy of Sciences on Monday week, after hearing Prof. Pasteur's account of the cases he has treated, appointed a Committee to consider the question of the establishment at Paris of a vast international hospital. On Monday last M. Vulpian communicated to the Academy the following proposals, unanimously agreed upon by the Committee:—(1) An establishment for the treatment of rabies shall be founded at Paris under the name of l'Institut Pasteur. (2) This Institution shall he open 13th to French subjects and to foreigners bitten by dogs or other rabid animals. (3) A public subscription is opened in France and abroad for the foundation of this establishment. (4) The employment of the funds subscribei shall be made under the direction of a Committee, consisting of Admiral Jurien de la Gravière, President of the Academy of Sciences; M. Bertrand, M. Vulpian, M. Marey, M. Paul Bert, M. Bichat, M. Charcot, M. Hervé Mangon, M. de Freycinet, M. Camille Doucet, M, Wallon, Vicomte Delaborde, M. Jules Simon; M. Magnin, Governor of the Bank of France; M. Christophile, Governor of the Crédit Foncier; M. Alphonse de Rothschild; M. Beclard, Doyen of the Faculty of Medicine, and Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Medicine; M. Brouardel, Professor to the Faculty of Medicine, and President of the Consultative Hygienic Committee of France; M. Gaucher, Professor to the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. (5) The subscriptions shall be received at the Bank of France and its branches, at the Crédit Foncier and its branches, and at the Public Treasury Offices. The names of all subscribers shall be inserted in the Journal Officiel.