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measures of the Egyptian cubit. — M. Dupetit-Thouars gave a verbal 

 report respecting the work, entitled Disposition mkhodique des 

 mousses; by M. Walker Arnott. — M. Bouillaud read Experimental 

 researches on the functions of the posterior portion of the brain. — 

 M. Willerme read the remainder of his Memoir on the distribution 

 of conceptions and births, in relation to the seasons. — M. Serullas 

 read Experiments on the iodide of antimony, and laid upon the 

 table some observations relating to the bromide of bismuth. 



Nov. 26. — The Minister of the Interior sent a Notice of M. 

 D'Hombres-Firmas respecting the fossil bones found in the environs 

 of Alais. — M. Saint- Hilaire deposited the manuscript of a new 

 work which he proposed to publish under the title of Flore et Pom- 

 mone francaises. — M. Damoiseau, in the name of a Commission, gave 

 an unfavourable account of the chronological tables by the Abbe La- 

 chevre.- — M. Le Gendre verbally announced the recent ingenious la- 

 bours of M. Jacobi of Konigsberg. This geometer has greatly per- 

 fected the important theory of elliptical functions. — M. Dupin, in the 

 name of a Commission, read the first part of a report respecting M. 

 Brisson's Essay on the general system of French navigation. — M. 

 Cagniard de Latour read some New experimental and theoretical 

 researches on the properties of sound. 



December 3. — MM. Gauthier de Claubry et Person requested that 

 a sealed note which they had deposited, should be given to the Com- 

 missioners, who were to give an account of the Memoir on madder by 

 MM. Robiquet and Collin— M. Malbouche announced that he had 

 successfully practised the method for the cure of stammering, invented 

 by Mrs. Leigh of New York. — At his request two Commissioners 

 named by the Academy were to attend the experiments. — At the re- 

 quest of the Academy of Inscriptions, two members of the Academy 

 of Sciences were added to the Commission named by them, for exa-^ 

 mining the Egyptian cubits lately discovered. — M. Dumeril, in the 

 name of a commission, reported respecting M. Chabrier's Memoir on 

 the progressive motion of man and animals. — M. Gay-Lussac made a 

 verbal report upon a pamphlet by M. Burridge, On the improvement 

 of civil architecture. — M. Biot read a memoir On the figure of the 

 earth. 



OBITUARY : — SIR J. E. SMITH. 



. On Monday, the 1 7th of March, died at his house in Surrey Street, 

 Norwich, his native city, aged 68, Sir James Edward Smith, M.D. 

 F.R.S. Member of the Academies of Stockholm, Upsal, Turin, Lisbon, 

 Philadelphia, New York, &c. &c. the Imperial Acad. Naturae Curio- 

 sorum, and the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, Hon. Mem. of 

 the Horticultural Society ; and President of the Linnasan Society, 

 which office he had held from the first establishment of the Society 

 in 1788. 



Of this eminent Naturalist and most excellent and amiable man, 

 as time does not permit us in our present Number to give such a no- 

 tice as is due to his station and his merits, we must fulfill that duty at 

 a future time. We shall now only add, that he had laboured nearly 



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