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establishment. — A note from M. Dizd On an indelible ink.— A sealed 

 packet from M. Comtd, containing a continuation of some physiological 

 experiments. — M. Cuvier presented some teeth of the gigantic tapir, 

 dug up in the arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens, by M. Cabuel, en- 

 gineer of bridges and highways. — The Commission deputed to examine 

 the memoirs on statistics, made a report. — M. Le Roy d'Etielles read 

 a memoir On asphixy. 



June 16. — In this public sitting there were heard : The historical 

 eulogy of M. Ramond, by M. Cuvier. — The historical eulogy of 

 M. Charles, by M. Fourier. — And a physiological memoir On the 

 brain, by M. Magendie. — Want of time prevented M. Prony from 

 reading a memoir which he had compiled On the labours of the late 

 M. Perronet. 



June 23. — Manuscript pieces received at this sitting : A letter 

 from the Minister of the Interior respecting a memoir by M. Braun 

 On the direction of balloons. — A letter from M. Petard relative to a 

 disease by which he had been attacked. — A description of the instru- 

 ments used in measuring geodesical bases. By M. Imbert. — Notice 

 of the discovery of a luminous liquid. By M. Kirch.— M. Mathieu, on 

 behalf of a Committee, made a favourable report on the Secateur per- 

 spectifoi M. Lalanne. — M. Navier gave an advantageous account of 

 a memoir by M. Corancez, intitled De V Integration de quelques equa- 

 tions aux differences partielles, et du mouvement de Veau dans les vases. 

 — Agreeably to the report of a Committee, the Academy decided that 

 the memoir presented by M. Foville On the anatomy of the brain 

 should be printed in Recueil des Savans etrangers. — M. AdolpheBron- 

 gniart read a memoir, intitled Nouvelles recherches sur le pollen et les 

 granules spermatiques des vegetaux. 



June 30. — M. Lionville presented a memoir On electro-dynamic 

 phenomena, and particularly on the mutual actions of the pole of a 

 magnet and a conducting wire. — M. Timel, author of a work On the 

 intellectual organization of man, requested the appointment of Com- 

 missioners. — The Academy afterwards heard at this sitting : A note 

 by M. Mirbel, On a remarkable development of the stalk of the Caly- 

 canthus Jloridus. — A memoir by M. Becquerel, On the electricity ex- 

 cited by the friction of two metals. — A memoir by M. Daussy, intitled 

 Determination des positions geographiques de Make, Milo et Corf on. — - 

 The conclusion of M. Villerme's memoir On the mean height of man 

 in France. — A report by M. Ampere, On a projected instrument by 

 M. Nobili, intended to measure the intensity of electric currents.-*? 

 M. Gay Lussac presented a specimen of the ultramarine prepared by 

 M. Guimet, and a new pyrophorus formed by calcining sulphate of 

 potash with charcoal. 



July 7. — M. Delattre de Rougemont deposited a sealed packet 

 containing a description of a new method of curing a severe disease. 

 — M. Tournal sent the second part of his Geognostic description of 

 the environs of Narbonne. — The Minister of War communicated the 

 report which he had received respecting the effects of lightning upon 

 the powder-magazine at Bayonne. — M. Russel d' Inval requested 

 that the processes which he had proposed for facilitating arithmetical 



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