 Society of Arcueil

The Society of Arcueil was a circle of French scientists who met regularly on summer weekends between 1806 and 1822 at the country houses of Claude Louis Berthollet and Pierre Simon Laplace at Arcueil, then a village 3 miles south of Paris.In 1807, when the first collection of ""Mémoires de Physique et de Chimie de la Société d'Arcueil"" was published, a list of contributing members read