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AT the head of this volume are the order of the Prefe£t for printing It, tlie rules of the 

 fociety, and a lift of its ordinary and correfponding members, with an Tkccount of the fo- 

 ciety's labour id after which are the following memoirs —Inftr"<^ioM3 i«r preferving 

 Wheat from Smut, by C. C. Cadet-de-Vaux, ParmentVer, S&^nt.Genis> and Yvart. — 

 Report of the Experiments of C. Houdart, Junr. on preparing and economifing feed — On 

 the means of draining various lands by fimple and not expenfivc procefles, by C. Chaffiron. 

 This mt'moir, which has been publifhed- feparately, is preceded by feme obfervatioas oa 

 the general fyftem of inland navigation in France, and followed by a comparative table of 

 the coal-mines worked in each department, and of thofe which require only navigable 

 canals and rivers to enable them to be worked. The former are fifty-one in number ; the 

 latter, fixty. Their importance to thofe of the French manufactures that require fuel, our 

 mechanic arts, and our agriculture, muft be obvious, at a time when we are perhaps not 

 fufficiently aware of the want of wood, with which we are threatened, from the great de- 

 vaftation of the' forefts in moft parts of the republic; a fubjecH: which has been treated of 

 by C. Lafterie in a feparate memoir in this volume. — On the precife Signification of the 

 terms Jgriculture and Rural Economy, by C. Cels. — Some Refleftions on the fuppofcd 

 flumber of Sheep in France, by C. Belong. The intention of this memoir is to excite 

 inquiry concerning this Important fubjeft. — The advantages of nurferies on eftatcs of a 

 certain extent, in facilitating fuch annual plantations as may be fuited to them, by C. 

 Villele.— An interefting Account of the fuccefsful Amputation of the fore leg of a Co\#, 

 which had been fraflured, by C. Chaumontel. — Experiments, Inquiries, and Obfervations 

 on Elms, by C. Boucher ; to which C. Denorgelles has added his Experiments for obtain- 

 ing Alcohol from the fap of Vegetables. — On the produft of different forts of wheat that 

 are cultivated, and the melioration of them ; or the advantages that would refult from 

 inquiring what forts of wheat yield the moft bread ; by C. Chancey.— On Rural Edifices, 

 by C. Gamier- Defchenes. — On the Manner in which the Mountains in the Cevennes arc 

 fertilized, by C. Chaptal. — On the Means of rendering fit for ufe Wells that have been 

 abandoned in confequcncc of the Mephitifation of the Soil, by C. Cadet-de-Vaux. — Ob- 

 fervations on the working of Wines, by C. CreufeLatouche.— On the Cultivation of the 

 Sugar-Cane in the Caribbee Iflands, and particularly of that of Otaheite, by C. Moreau-St. 

 Mery.— On the Cultivation of the Sugar-Cane, by C. Cofligny.— On the Cinnamon-Tree 

 of French Guiana, by C. le Blond. — ^The volume concludes with accounts of the lives of 

 Crette de Palluel, and T. Francis de Grace. Mag. Encycl. 



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