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GENTLEMEN,

day the Academy, for the first time, celebrates a festival, which, annually renovated, will annually present its enquires and decisions to a respectable public, whose judgment it esteems, and whose approbation it is ambitious of obtaining. Had the choice been left to us, gratitude without doubt would have induced us to have selected, as the epocha of our anniversary, the day on which the academy was instituted. We should by that means have enjoyed a desirable and well-chosen opportunity of presenting those oblations of veneration and love which we owe Rh