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AT the annual meeting on March 1, the Academy of Sciences distributed a large number of prizes, besides the extraordinary prize awarded to Mr. Crookes for the “Ensemble de ses Experiences.” The Poncelet prize has been granted to M. Moutard, Professor at the Polytechnic School, for his works in analysis; the Dalmont prize to M. Collignon, Engineer of the Fonts et Chaussées, for similar services rendered to mechanics. M. Collignon is the author of a treatise on rational mechanics, containing not less than five large 8vo volumes. The Lalande prize was granted to Mr. Peters, the well-known astronomer of Clinton, for the discovery of forty-three small planets, eighteen of them discovered in 1879. M. Trouvelot, the French astronomer who was banished in 1851, and settled in the United States, took the Valz prize for his descriptive designs of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, which are exhibited in the large hall of the Paris Observatory. M.Trouvelot's observations on Jupiter's spots were considered as deserving of special mention. The Lacaze prize for physics was awarded to M. Leroux, Professor to the School of Pharmacy for his researches on ovapours, on chronographs, magneto-electric machines, and peripolar induction. The Lacaze prize for chemistry was granted to M. Lecoq de Boisbaudran for his discovery of gallium,
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Prizes of the Paris Academy of Sciences . Nature 21, 421 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021421a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021421a0