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tions which have been made to the library, the laboratory, and 

 the museum. We are gratified to observe that considerable atten- 

 tion has been paid by the members to indigenous Zoology. This 

 subject would receive the greatest improvement from the labours 

 of such local societies as this, established in different parts of the 

 country, from the opportunities both of observing the habits of 

 native animals, and of ascertaining and registering the distribution 

 of rare or local species. 



The society consists at present of 158 members, James Cull, 

 Esq. being the President. 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS. 



November '2, 1824. — M. Majendie read a continuation of his me- 

 moir on the fifth pair of nerves, — M. Loiseleur des Longchamps 

 read a memoir on the means of obtaining several crops of silk in 

 a year, succeeded by some observations relative to the history 

 of silk- worms. 



November 15. — M.M. Dumeril, Cuvier, and Majendie delivered 

 a report on M. Lauth's memoir respecting the lymphatic system in 

 birds. 



November 22. — M. Huzard, Junr. and M. Pelletier presented 

 their work on the genus Hirudo. — M. Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire pre- 

 sented his Synoptic Tables, explaining the composition of the skull 

 in man and in animals. — M. Latreille communicated an Analytical 

 Table of the natural families of the animals constituting M. Cuvier's 

 second division of the Animal Kingdom, the Moliusca. 



November 29. — M. Laurencet read a memoir on the structure 

 of the brain. 



December 13. — M. de Ferrussac read a memoir on the Geo- 

 graphy of the Moliusca. 



December 20. — M. Desmoulins communicated the results of 

 his observations on the nervous system of two species of Petromy- 

 zon. — M. Majendie read a memoir on a fluid which is found in 

 the cavity of the vertebral canal and in part of the cranium in 

 man, and in the mammifera generally ; and on 



December 27, he communicated verbally some new details on 

 the subject : on opening the body of a man soon after death, he 



