OF LOUIS XIV

Foundedby Coîbert in 1666.

Receives its statuies, yanuary 26, 1699.

/ts organization is confirmed by letters patent ^ February^ 1 7 1 3«

Perpétuai Secretaries.

The Abbé Duhamel, from 1668 to 1699.

Fontenelle, from 1699 to 1741.

List of its priîicipal Members,

1 666. Pierre de Carcavi ; Huyghens van Zulychem ; Roberval ; Auzout ;

Claude Perrault ; Pecquet; Mariette.

1669. François Blondel ; Cassini.

1674. Du Verney.

1675. Leibnitz (foreign associate).

1678. Philippe de la Hire.

1682. Tschirnhausen (foreign associate).

1685. Melchisedec Thévenot.

1691. J. P. Bignon; Tournefort.

1693. Guillaume François de l'Hôpital, marquis de Saint-Mesme.

1694. Jacques Cassini; Gabriel Philippe de la Hire.

1696. Joseph Sauveur.

1697. £ontenelle.

1699. Nicolas lyémery ; Malebra.ncKe (honorary member) ; Pierre Sylvain Régis; Fagon; Vauban ; Jacques Bernoulli ; Jean Bernoulli ; Isaac Newton (the last three, foreign associâtes) ; Louis Lémery.

1701. Pierre du Verney ; Jacques Ozanam.

1 706. Réaumur.

1707. Jacques Bénigne Winslow.

1708. Sir Hans Sloane (foreign associate). 1711, Antoine de Jussieu.