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France. — M. Cuvier read An historical eulogium respecting M. Cor- 

 visart; and M. Cordier, a memoir On the temperature of the earth. 



June 18. — The following are the titles of the memoirs or manu- 

 script works presented to the Academy: — Notice respecting two 

 mussels and a toad, which were taken alive from a well which had 

 been filled up for one hundred and fifty years ; by Dr. Quenin, mayor 

 of Orgon. — A sealed packet, containing An account of a new process 

 for breaking calculi ; by M. Cazenave. — A sealed packet, containing 

 New chemical researches ; by MM.Quesneville and Julia fontenelle. 

 — Description of a method by which boats may go up rivers alone 

 and without expense or danger ; by M. Anatasi. — Design for a new 

 pump for fire-engines ; by M. Stolz. — New considerations respecting 

 the boilers of steam-engines ; by M. Tabareau. — On certain organs 

 of the Hymenoptera, Diptera, ike. ; by Mi Robineau-Desvoydi. — 

 Researches respecting the vibration of several sonorous bodies, and 

 particularly elastic cords; by M. Cagniard de la Tour. — Notice 

 respecting the extinct volcanoes of the South of France, the erup- 

 tions of which occurred since the deposition of the second fresh- 

 water formation; by M. Marcel de Serres. — On the elementary 

 principles relating to the division of territories. — The Minister of 

 the Interior announced his having sent the Academy a collection 

 of the fossil bones found in the grottoes of Osselles. — M. Geofrroy- 

 Saint-Hilaire sent from Montelimart several particulars which he 

 had collected respecting the scientific establishments of the South 

 of France.— M. Blainville, in the name of the Commission, read An 

 account of an extremely curious memoir, by MM. Raspail and 

 Robineau-Desvoydi, but which appears to require new researches. 

 — M. Brochant gave a favourable account of the new memoir by 

 M. Bonnard On the territory of Arkose. — M. Constant Prevost 

 read a memoir, entitled An examination of the geological question, 

 " Whether the continents which we inhabit have been repeatedly 

 covered by the ocean ?" 



June 25. — MM. Raspail and Robineau-Desvoydi announce that 

 they possess myriads of Alcyonellce, and sent a packet of them. — 

 M. Lacroix gave a favourable account of M.Denaix'swork, entitled 

 A methodical comparative geographical essay. — M. Cuvier read a 

 memoir On the Scarus of the ancients. — M. Berthier read A notice 

 of four memoirs which he presented to the Academy on some new 

 mineral species. — M. Roger communicated some results which he 

 had obtained respecting the height of Mont-Blanc. — M. Raspail 

 read a memoir, entitled A physiological analysis of the Spongilla 

 friabilis of Linnaeus. 



The Academy decided that the place vacant by the death of 

 M. Ramond should be supplied. 



July 2. — M. Pons, of Florence, informed the Academy that he 

 had discovered on the 20th of June, a small comet, invisible to the 

 naked eye, in the constellation of Cassiopccia; and according to a 

 letter from Marseilles, M. Gambart also observed it at 2 o'clock in 

 the morning of the 21 st of June. — M. Beudant reported, in the 

 name of the Commissioners, very favourably with respect to four 



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