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logical chart, not according to the political or aceidental di- 

 vifions of the earth, but merely according to thofe phyfical 

 boundaries which have been admitted by geographers. He 

 takes his departure from the meridian of France, and di- 

 vides the globe into twenty-fix divifions, of fufficient extent 

 to obtain fenfible differences. By means of thefe comparable 

 degrees, the naturalift: will be able to afcertain the differences 

 between animals, and even the variations in the fame forms 

 and fpeeies. This grand view of Lacepede, by leading to 

 more exaft defcriptions and more accurate obfervations, will 

 ferve to give more extent to the fcience of the naturalift. 



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C. Noel, in a memoir read in the Society, after taking a 

 view of the advantages which might refult from naturalifing 

 falt-water fifh in rivers and ponds, and particularly the her- 

 ring, pointed out the means to be employed for that purpofe. 

 Thefe means are, to conftruft an artificial pond between two 

 iflands of the Seine, and to depofit in it herrings full of roes 

 both hard and foft, which might be carried thither by one 

 or more boats. To enfure the fuccefs of this firft operation, 

 the fame boats might repair to the fishing banks, when the 

 herrings have fpawned, and take up a lading of fecundated 

 ova to be carried to the artificial pond, with certain precau- 

 tions which the author points out in his memoir, C. Noel 

 mentions a great many inftances which feeni to prove that 

 the herring is fond of frefti water ; and, among other fa£ls, 

 he relates an experiment of Dr. Franklin, who flocked one 

 of the rivers of New England with herrings by depofiiing in 

 the water leaves of plants covered with ova. To add fome 

 force to the proofs adduced, C. Noel takes a view of the dif- 

 ferent kinds of fi(h which, by the art of man, have been 

 tranfplanted from one climate to another. 



G, Chantran read a memoir on the fmut in wheat, and its 

 acid. After remarking, that ftalks which bear charred ears 

 differ in nothing from others, and that thefe ears often con- 

 tain good and bad grains, he thought himfelf authorifcd to ad- 

 vance, that this difeafe does not exift, as generally believed, 

 in the germ of the feed from which they fprung. However, 

 he does not cbnfider liming the feed as ufelefs 3 he thinks it 

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