less important in appearance, is deserving of attention; it is relative to the mode of lacing. Madame C., instead of lacing the corset all at once in one direction, and beginning from one extremity, commences the operation from the middle of the waist, upward and downward. This method allows the means of regulating the pressure, according as it may be requisite, to the different parts of the body on which the corset is applied, whilst by the ordinary process it must, as a matter of course, exert the same power in every part.
"The modifications we have related in the construction of an article so generally worn, and which has been much abused, have appeared important enough to the members of the commission you have named, to submit them to your notice, as improvements deserving your approbation; we therefore purpose, as conclusions of this report—
"First,—That a letter be addressed to. Dr. Caplin, to congratulate him on the result his wife has obtained in the construction of her Corset, as also to encourage her in the pursuit of other improvements.
"Secondly,—That her invention be favourably mentioned in the printed annual report of the Society."
"This being the only reward which, according to the regulations of the institution, you are permitted to grant to anyone of its members.
"The society unanimously adopt the above conclusions.
Signed by
"DR. CARON.—Médecin de la préfecture de Police, et du bureau de Beinfaisance, du 4eme arrondissement: "Auteur d'un appercu d'Hygiène, sur l'alimentation par le café au lait.
"DR. GENEST.—Ancien chef de Clinique à l'Hotel Dieu; auteur des Leçons de Cliniques Méédicales, sur la fièvre Typhoide. "Rédacteur de la Gazette Mếdicale, pour la Pathologie interne.
"DR. RIBES.—Ancien Médecin du Roi par quartier-Mếdecin de l'Hotel Royal des Invalides."
N.B.—The copy of the above report, duly signed and sealed by the secretary of l'Athénée des Arts, Sciences, et Belles Lettres, de Paris, is to to be seen at Madame Caplin's Establishment, 58, Berners Street, London.
As an appendage to the above we may insert here the notice from the
