n Paris. Several men of high
reputation, Mr. Walsh says, took part in its proceedings, which gave
promise of unusual interest. Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, was
prominent as an orator. Recently, he could rally but two votes in the
Academy of Sciences, as a candidate for a vacant seat. The man is not so
much prized, we may believe, as the ornithologist.

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M. EOELMEN, the director of the national porcelain manufactory of
Sevres, has succeeded in producing crystalized minerals, resembling very
closely those produced by nature--chiefly precious and rare stones
employed by jewelers. To obtain this result, he has dissolved in boric
acid, alum, zinc, magnesia, oxydes of iron, and chrome, and then
subjecting the solution to evaporation during three days, has obtained
crystals of a mineral substance, equaling in hardness and in beauty and
clearness of color the natural stones. With chrome, M. Eoelmen has made
most brilliant rubies, from two to three millimetres in length, and
about as thick as a grain of corn. If rubies can be artificially made,
secrets which were pursued by the alchemists of old cannot be very far
off.

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At a late meeting of the _Liverpool Polytechnic Society_, Captain
PURNELL read a paper in explanation of his plan for preventing vessels
being water-logged at sea. Cisterns are to be provided on each side in
the interior of the vessel, fitted with valves opening by pressure from
within. The water would thus be kept below a certain level, and the ship
be enabled to carry sail.

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PROF. HASSENSTEIN, of Gotha, recently illuminated the public square
before the Council House in that city with his new electric sun. The
effect was most brilliant, as if a bevy of full moons had risen
together, and the applause of the beholders, the newspapers assure us,
was unbounded.

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THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE will this year
meet at Cincinnati, on the approaching 5th of May.

_Recent Deaths._

SAMUEL FARMER JARVIS, D.D., one of the most learned men in the Episcopal
Church in the United States, died at Middletown, Connecticut, on the
26th of March. Dr. Jarvis was born in Middletown, where his father
(afterward Bishop Jarvis) was then rector of Christ's Church, on the
20th of January, 1787. His childhood and early yout