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The Scientific Congress in France Quoting from Galignani's Messenger, the Times of September 22, 1834, recorded that “The Scientific Congress, which has been sitting at Poitiers has closed its session. The number of its members amounted to 230”. Among the questions discussed was that of the policy of employing troops on public works such as roads, while the agricultural section presented a resolution that “Salt may be beneficially used in the feeding of cattle, and in improving land, consequently the tax upon this article, which prevents it being so used, ought to be reduced”. The Congress was deeply concerned with “the immorality which degrades many of the literary productions of the present day”; and it declared that “the French Academy at Rome should be suppressed being no longer of any utility”. The proceedings of the Congress, it was said, have proved that the institution cannot fail to increase the welfare and happiness of society, and it was decided that the next meeting should take place at Douai in 1835.
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 134, 470 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134470a0
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