468 Proceedings of Scientific Institutions. 



- June I. The following papers were read : Some account of a new cherry call- 

 ed " the early purple guigne." By Mr. Robert Thomson, under-gardener in the 

 fruit department of the Garden of the Society. Some remarks upon the ailtiva- 

 tion of the strawberry ; in a letter to IVIr. Lindley. By IMr. John Fairbairn, 

 F.H.S. On a method of forcing cherry-trees ; in a letter to Mr. Lindley. By 

 Mr. Benjamin Law, of Northampton. 



Exhibited. Seven sorts of pelargoniums, from Mr. Russell of Battersea. A 

 specimen of a hybrid cactus from the Comte de Vandes. Various flowers from 

 the Society's Garden ; together with a Triilidad pine-apple ; and specimens of 

 cherries grown under different circumstances. 



June 15. Exhibited. Seedling Azaleas, from the Earl of Carnarvon. Double 

 Sempervivens rose and la Tourterelle rose, from Mr. James Young, Caprifoli- 

 um pubescens, from Robert Barclay, Esq. Cypripedium spectabile, from Mr. 

 Wm. Malcolm. Cactus speciosisimus, from Mr. Heniy Groom. A collection 

 of pinks, from Mr. T. Hogg. A model of a wheel water-engine, from Mr. 

 Siebe, the inventor. A large collection of flowers, from the Garden of the Society. 



FOREIGN. 



Academy of Sciences Meeting of April 5, 1830._Baron Cuvier read 



a memoir entitled considerations on the sternum. 



Meeting of April 12 Mr. Benjamin Delessert communicated two notes to 



the Academy, addressed to him from Edinburgh, by Mr. Smith. The first of 

 these notes was relative to the discovery of a new milk tree found at Demerara, 

 and to which Mr. Walker Amott gave the name of Tabernamontana utile. The 

 second note related to the germination of the nepenthes. 



Mr. Arago read a letter of M- Dumas on the properties of a specimen of 

 rock salt sent from Saxony by M. Boud. 



M. Flourens read a memoir on the influence which water exerts on the 

 respiration of fishes. 



M. Latreille read a memoir on the Bombyx of the ancients. 



Dr. Deleau, jun. read a memoir on Dactylogy. 



M. Cauchy read a mathematical memoir. 



M. Geoffrey St. Hilaire, unwilling to continue the discussion between Baron 

 Cuvier and himself, mentioned his intention of publishing a work in which 

 he hopes to refute victoriously the arguments of M. Cuvier. 



Meeting of the \9th April. — M. Blumenbach was elected to the seat vacant 

 by the death of Dr. Young. 



M. Castero presented to the Academy a mechanical contrivance for the pre- 

 vention of the overturning of the stages called omnibus. 



M. Aldini presented to the Academy a work of Mr. Waston on the means of 

 preventing the sinking of vessels. 



M. Arago presented a tube full of the crystals of Palladium, sent to him by 

 De Humboldt. 



M. Coquebert Montbret made a verbal report on the journey of M. Caillie to 

 Timbuctoo. 



Meeting of May 3, 1830.— M. Julia Fontenelle communicated to the Acade- 

 my a note relative to pretended human fossil bones which had been found in tra- 

 vertin© near Martres de Veyre. They presented about 50 per cent, of phosphate 

 of lime. 



M. Arago exhibited to the Academy two fragments of an oak smgularly struck 

 by lightning. They had been transmitted by the Duke of Chartres. 



M. Coquebert Montbret made a communication on a memoir of M. Bernard 

 Petri, relative to the means of increasing the production of wool on sheep 

 without increasing the expenditure of their maintenance. 



