SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, 
Paes, 
SELECTED FROM, 
THE TRANSACTIONS OF 
FOREIGN ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE 
AND LEARNED SOCIETIES, 
AND FROM 
FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
EDITED BY 
RICHARD TAYLOR, F.S.A., 
FELLOW OF THE LINNZ AN, GEOLOGICAL, ASTRONOMICAL, ASIATIC, STATISTICAL 
AND GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON 5 
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MOSCOW. 
UNDER SECRETARY OF THE LINNAZAN SOCIETY, 
: VOL. Tf, 
LONDON: 
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SOLD BY LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS; CADELL; RIDGWAY 
AND SONS; SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; B, 
FELLOWES; S. HIGHLEY ; WHITTAKER AND CO.; AND J. B. BAILLIERE, LONDON: 
——AND BY A. AND C. BLACK, AND THOMAS CLARK, EDINBURGH; SMITH AND 
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. 1843. 
