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on the surface of which were lodged specimens of an Echinus. 

 He also read extracts from a letter on the subject, from Mr. John 

 D. Humphreys, of Cork, from whom he received the specimen ; 

 and he promised to furnish the Club with a detailed account at a 

 future Meeting. 



A portion of a paper was read, entitled " A description of such 

 genera and species of Insects, alluded to in the Introduction to 

 Entomology of Messrs. Kirby and Spence, as appear not to have 

 been sufficiently noticed or described," by the Rev. William 

 Kirby, M.A. F.R. and L.S. &c. 



August 24. — The remaining portion of Mr. Kirby's First 

 Decade of Insects, commenced at the last Meeting, was read. 



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March 1, 1824. — M. Cuvier read a Memoir, entitled, A New 

 Examination of a Fossil Animal, from the Schists of Solenhoffen, 

 which appears to belong to the class of Reptiles, and to which the 

 name of Plerodactylus has been given. 



March 8. — M. Moreau de Jonnes read some New Researches 

 upon the Trigonocephalus lanceolatus, (T.fer de lance) or Great 

 Viper of the West Indies ; and on 



March 15, He exhibited the young of that reptile, as ready for 



birth. M. G. Saint-Hilaire read a Memoir, On the Osseous 



System, as affording the most certain indications of Affinities in 

 Zoology, and on the presumable causes of this superiority of 

 evidence. 



March 22. — M. Magendie communicated the result of his ex- 

 periments on the sense of smell. He announced that this sense 

 is not entirely destroyed by the division of the olfactory nerve; 

 and he also described the various effects produced by the divi- 

 sion of the fifth pair of nerves. 



March 29. — M. Fouilhoux read a Memoir, entitled, Anatomi- 

 cal and Physiological Remarks on the Ganglionic System. 



April 5. — M. Cuvier read a Memoir, On a new genus of Fossil 



