43(5 Proceedings of Ptthilc Societies. [June 1, 



rtiiK; innsi.'icr ; and tlie (vaiivas aupeareil so iiials, parliculaily of (!ic nuiTalo. — M, 



Civiiik' picsi'iiiid a Mcinoiioii a Lillioii- 



roiiiii, thai 11 v\uuld tcaicel^ liaiig on 



iilLIII. 



April 4. 



On reacliing Wilson's party, we met 

 vnili many ptisoiis wiio lia.l foinieily been 

 ill a rcspeciaUle siliiation of life in Eiig- 

 laiid, ami liad liroughl out sonie jnoperty 

 \wtii llieni. 'jliis is liie descnplion of 

 jieople who liave snfioied Ihc greatest 

 privalioDh and caianiities. I SjioUe to one 

 <ii two ie,spe('tat)le vvomcn, wlio save nie 

 ;i more lively idea of liicir melanclioly si- 

 laalion, by re|ilyiiig to nic in a manner 

 tiiat immediaUly evinced that tliey had 

 been well e<hicatcd, and brought up iu 

 poud society, though they nov* appeared 

 1(1 be hall-starved, and almost broken- 

 liearled, v*illi their persons neglected and 

 111 rags. At this place their gardens had 

 generally fu.kd, and the coin altogether. 

 Apiil G. 



Capt. and his two sons weie with- 

 out shoes or stockings, and actually with- 

 out >iitt'icient clolhisig of any kind to cover 

 llieir naked limbs. Tiieircorn had iotatly 

 tailed Irom blight, and their garden had 

 .scarcely produced any thing, in conac- 

 <jiuiiec ot droiij»ht and caterjiillars. 



Mis. Ciiriie (who has a shop at ISathi'.rst) 

 toKl me, that though almost every setller 

 was in the greatest distress, for v%ant of 

 the eoiniiion necessaries ot life, atid tlioii!;ll 

 the articles she sells are chidiy of thisde- 

 ycripiion, yet there vtas almost no demand; 

 I.ecaiise not one in fifty bad a single rix- 

 ddilar to e.\pend. Such, however, she 

 iidiled, was the distress of some, tlial slie 

 eoiild not help giving credit, though with 

 little or no piospeci ol ever being rej>ai;1. 



tiiplor, or new nuaiis of destroviiig u 

 stone ill tli.' bladder without the opera- 

 tion ol'ciiltinfv- 



Jan. 19. — A Memoir was received, 

 on a Gasometer for condensed Gas, by 

 M. Picquel. — Also a Memoir from Las- 

 saigne, on the I'ossibiiitj of dotcctiiiff, 

 by clieniical ftleans, tlie ])resence of (i.e 

 Acetate of Morphia in the "Viscera of 

 Animals poisoned by it. — M. !e Giillois 

 presented a Menu)ir on Animal Heat, 

 written by his father.— A ftlenioir by 

 M. F, Riui^e was read, on the means of 

 discovering; tlie s!i;^htest traces of nar- 

 cotic substance in animals poisoned by 

 the Atropa BellaJoiina and Datnra. — M. 

 SCjCalas presented a Kitliicy converted 

 into a vast membranous sac, by. tlio 

 increase of a great niiir.bcr of calculi. — 

 M. Ucsmuulins commenced the reailing 

 of a Memoir on the use of the colour.s of 

 the Choroid Coat in tlie Eyes uf vcrte-» 

 bialcd Animals. 



Jan. 2fJ. — Ai. Diililanc, jun. apotlio- 

 cary at Paris, stated that he liad found 

 tlie Tincture of Galls to be a very sen- 

 sible test of tiie presence vi' Morphia in 

 liquids, whether alone, or combined with 

 the i'.cetic aiul sulplmric acids. — il. 

 Giraiul made a fa\oiirablc Report on 

 the Memoir of M1\I. Scgnin rolalive to 

 Suspension-bridges. — M. Eabinct read 

 a Note tin a new Coiistiuclion of the 

 Hoise-liair IJjgroinetir. — M. Strauss 

 continued tiic reading oi'liis Memoir on 

 tiie Anatomy of the Cock-chafer. — M. 

 A. dc St, ililairc read some new tibser- 

 yations on the Family ol the Kutaccie. 



Feb. 'J. — A JMctnoir was received 

 from M. llemaiii on V^eg;e(able I'liysio- 

 log;y. — M. Poissoii [iresenied his Me- 

 moir on ilie Theory of Magnetism. — M. 

 Chevallicr stated, tliat Ikf had detected 



ACADEMY Of SCIIiNCES OF PARIS. 



Jan. 6. — .Some observaliotis werere- 

 eeived from M. Giiillod, sii[>plcmontary 

 Xo his Memoir on llie nutritive Aiiimal- 

 • ii'e of Oysters. — M. A mjiere continued 

 the readm;; of a Memoir containiiijf 

 ^0!ne new deduclions of the T'ormula 

 by ulii('b he lias represented tiie mutual ammonia in many n^itive oxvdes of iron. 

 ;u tiuii ol the two elements of electric . — A Jxcjiort was received from the 



«'iiiieiils. — M. Iioche read a Memoir on 

 Itolai) Motion. 



Jan. 1*2. — M. de Jnssieu, in the name 

 111 a Commission, made a tavuurable 



Commission relative tu Gas Illumina- 

 tion and Gasometers. 



Feb. 16. — Artiand Reynaud an- 

 nounced the discovery of a method of 



Rc])t>rt on M. A. Richard's Memoir on iiroteetin^ the Magnetic Needle from 

 the Family of Elicagnetrie. — A Memoir the inlliience of iron. — M. 'rilerier re- 

 ol r.I. Libri, on the 'I'lieory of NumbiMS, quested that a Keport might be made 

 Was reierred to a Coinmissioi), — M. on his mode of iuakin,i^ elliptic para- 

 Magendie g.ive a verbal account of a bolic Jilirrois. — M. Damoiseau pre- 

 Mi rmiir by M.Desmoiilms on the Com- .scnied a ftlemoir on the Perlurbations 

 jiosilion ol the Sjiinal Marrow. — M. A. of tin; Motion of the Comet of lbl9, in 



the tuo periods wbi<-h (irecedcd its 

 jierilieHoii passage in lb'25. — M. Arago 

 (ieposili'd i.i the Aicliives tiie aslrono- 

 iiiica! ubscivatiuiis made at Paramatta 



ill 



St. Hilai(\; liuislied tiie reading of bis 

 Memoir tin the genera Sativagesi i and 

 Lavradia. j^l. Ijiiiilie read u Memoir 

 till the Use of the lloiiis of certain Aui- 



