eserve its lessons for futurity.

MAJENDIE, LOUIS and LONDE--appointed by the _French Academy of Medicine_
to examine a work by Dr. James Gillkrest, entitled, _Is Yellow Fever
contagious or not?_ have made a report in which they speak highly of the
industry and skill displayed by Dr. Gillkrest, and adopt the conclusion
at which he arrives with regard to the non-contagiousness of this
disease. "The author," say they, establishes by numerous well-selected
and incontrovertible proofs that yellow fever is not contagious under
any circumstances,--not even in the case of crowding in this disease,
whether of the dead or of the living; that the removal of the
individuals from the influence of the local causes which produce this
affection is the fittest means of preventing its extension; and, lastly,
that the cordons called "sanitary and quarantine measures, far from
arresting yellow fever, on the contrary favor its extension by combining
the population within the influence of the local causes which give it
birth." It may be hoped that with valuable testimony like this before
them, governments will lose no time in abandoning oppressive quarantine
regulations, at least as far as yellow fever is concerned.

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From Holland, we hear that the dissolution of the _Royal Institute of
the Netherlands_, which was ordered by royal decree to take place on the
1st of this month, has caused great dissatisfaction in the literary and
scientific circles, and has called forth a rather indignant remonstrance
from the Dutch Literary Association. The Institute held its last meeting
on the 15th December; and it drew up a series of resolutions,
expressing, in dignified terms, its sense of the injustice done it, and
declaring that its dissolution will be "a heavy blow and a great
discouragement" to Dutch science. The want of funds is the pretext put
forth by the government for breaking up the learned body.

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The _Society of Antiquaries_ of Copenhagen is about to publish an
_Archaeological Atlas of the North_, accompanied by explanatory matter in
French and Danish. It will be a valuable addition to the memoirs,
papers, and documents, already published by the Society. This scientific
association is one of the most important in Northern Europe, and its
members include many of the most distinguished _savans_ of Germany,
Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. It possesses an excellen