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wire germinated in azote gas. They do not germinate in oil ; 

 but if after having been fwelled in water they are put into oil, 

 they germinate very well. 



Thefe facts afford new inductions in favour of the decompo- 

 fition of water in germination, and confequently in vegetation. 



Bull. desSc.x. No. 55. 



Me moires (V Agriculture, Sfc. — p. 79. 

 At the head of this volume are the order of the prefect for Memoirs of the 

 printing it, the rules of the Society, and a lift of its ordinary ^^fjjT 

 and correfponding members, with an account of the Society's partment of the 

 labours : after which are the following memoirs. — Inftructions Scme ' 

 for 'preserving wheat from fmut: by CC. Cadet-de-Vaux, 

 Farmentier, Saint-Genis, and Yvart. — Report of the experi- 

 ments of C. Houdart, junior, on preparing and economising 

 feed. — On the means of draining various lands by fiinple and 

 not expenfive procefles, by C. Chaffiron. This memoir, 

 which has been publifhed feparately, is preceded by fome ob- 

 fervations on the general fyftem of inland navigation in France, 

 and followed by a comparative table of the coal-mines worked 

 in each department, and of thofe which require only navigable 

 canals and rivers to enable them to be worked. The former 

 are fifty-one in number ; the latter, fixty. Their importance 

 to thofe of the French manufactures that require fuel, or me- 

 chanic arts, and agriculture, mutt be obvious, at a time when 

 they are perhaps not fufficiently aware of the want of wood, 

 with which they are threatened, from the great devaluation of 

 forefts in moft parts of the republic ; ti fubject which has been 

 treated of by C. Lafterie in a feparate memoir in this volume. 

 -*-On the precife fignification of the terms agriculture and 

 rural economy , by C. Cels. — Some reflections on the iuppofed 

 number of iheep in France, by C. Delong. The intention of 

 this memoir is to excite inquiry concerning this important 

 fubject.— -The advantages of nurferics on eftates of a certain 

 extent, in facilitating fuch annual plantations as may befuited 

 to them, by C. VUlele. — An interefting account of the iuo 

 cefsful amputation of the fore-leg of a cow, which had been 

 fractured, by C. Chaumontel. — Experiments, inquiries, and 

 obfervations on elms, by C. Boucher; to which C. Denor- 

 gelles has added his experiments for obtaining alcohol from 

 the fap of vegetables. — On the product 6i different forts of 

 wheat that are cultivated, and the melioration of them ; or 

 the advantages that would refult from inquiring what forts of~ 



wheat 



