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Nov. 20. The Baron de Capellen sent an official and detailed relation of the 

 earthquake that overthrew, in 1823, one of the most fertile parts of Java. He 

 added an hydrographical plan of the country when the eruption took place. 



Colonel Boune is appointed to report on a memoir sent by Captain Sabine, on 

 the recent observations made by Mr Hansteen in Siberia, on the intensity of ter- 

 restrial magnetism. 



Mr Jomard communicated two letters, the one from Mr. C. Moreau, the other 

 from Mr. John Barrow, containing notices of the Planisphere in the British Mu- 

 seum, which is an exact copy of the map of Fra Mauro, painted in 1459, in the 

 church of St Michel of Murano, in Venice. 



The president announced that Mr Dard is about to establish himself in central 

 America, where he is anxious to be of use to the Society. Mr Warden will give 

 him instructions. 



Mr Barbie' de Bocage communicated an official note on the division of Brazil 

 into eighteen provinces. 



Mr Bottin reported on Mr d'Espagnol's project on the statistics of the depart- 

 ment of the Ariege. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



Mr R. P. Lesson is about to publish. Zoological Century, or Selection of Rare 

 Animals, new or imperfectly known, with 100 plates from original drawings by 

 Mr Pretre ; there will be 20 [parts, each part 6 francs, in royal 8vo. Paris. 



Levrault Mr Seringe is preparing Collections of 100 Specimens of the Plants 



of Chamouni, and mountains neighbouring Mont Blanc, 1 vol. 4to. price 30 

 francs. Geneva. — Belenger is about to publish his Travels in India, in 3 vols. 

 4to. with an Atlas ; they will be published in parts, 12 francs each ; the zoolo- 

 gical and botanical part to be divided into 15 parts, of which 8 wiU be zoological. 



—Travels in the Morea ; by W. M. Leake, F.R.S Four Years' Residence in 



the West Indies ; by F. W. N. Bayley, Esq — Travels in Russia ; by Edward 

 Morton, M.B. are announced as in progress of publication. 



List of New Books. 



Synopsis Hepaticarum Europaearum, J. B. G. Lindenberg, in 4to. 133 pages. 



Bonn Tableau des Terrains, &c. A. Brongniart, 8vo. 435 p. Paris and Stras- 



bourgh, 1 829 Pluto oder Vertheidigung des Buches, die Unterwalt, 8vo. Leip. 



zig, 1829 Geognostische Profile, &c. Baron de Schwerin, slst part, 6 maps in 



royal 8vo. 220 p. Munich — Carte Geologique du Departement des Calvados ; 



by Mr. de Caumont Geognosie des Terrains Tertiares ; by Marcel de Serres, 



in 8vo. 276 p. 7 fr- 55 c. Montpelier and Paris Gebirg's Profil, &c. ; by Pro- 

 fessor Huggy. Soleure Geognostisches Gemaelde von Deutschland, &c. ; by 



Ami. Boue, and published by Leonhard, in royal 8vo. 623 p. 8 plates. Franck- 

 fort — Memoires Geologiques et flletallurgiques, sur I'Allemagne ; by Mr. M&ues, 



8vo. 35 p. Paris Elemens pratiques d'Exploration ; by C. R. Brard, 1 voL 



8vo. 32 plates, 584 p. 12 fr. Paris Symbola Physicse seu Icones et Descrip- 



tiones Mammalium, &c. Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Decas 1. in fol. Berlin.—. 

 Observations de Avium Arteria Carotide communi ; C. Nitzsch, 26 p. 4to. Halle. 

 — Travels in various parts of Peru ; by Sir Edmond Temple, 2 vols. 8vo — Let. 

 ters from Nova Scotia ; by Capt. William Morrison, 1 vol. 8vo — Travels in 

 Kamtschatka, Siberia, and China ; by P. Dobell, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. 



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