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to make now. The expenditure has exceeded the receipts 

 about 30/., but a considerable proportion of this has arisen 

 from contingencies, which are not likely to occur again, and 

 a further portion from the expense of new cases, &c., to hold 

 our increasintj collection. 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS. 



Aug. 2. — The director of the administration of manu- 

 factures requested the Academy to examine a manuscript 

 work by M. Charles Barbier, entitled An essay on the Chi- 

 nese and Persian notography. — It was announced that the 

 fossil bones of a very large mastodon had been discovered at 

 Montpellier ; and that M. Gambart, director of the obser- 

 vatory of Marseilles, had discovered, on the 27th of July, anew 

 comet in the constellation Hercules. — M. Poisson made a re- 

 port on the new tables of the moon, by M. Damoiseau. — M. 

 Desmoulins read a memoir on the lachrymal organ and ner- 

 vous system of the Trigonoccphali. — M. Pouillet commenced 

 the reading of a memoir on the high temperatures and on the 

 heat which prevail at the surface of the sun. 



Aug. 9. — M. le Baron Blin communicated, in manuscript, 

 his Ti'eatise on Harmony. — M. Cauchy, in the name of a 

 commission, made a report on an analytical memoir by M. 

 Libri, relating to the theory of numbers : [this memoir will be 

 printed in the Recueil des Savans Etrangeis.'] — M. Vauquelin, 

 in the name of a commission, gave a report on M. Lassaigne's 

 memoir respecting the means of discovering hydrocyanic acid 

 in the organs of animals poisoned by that re-agent. — M. Arago 

 aimounced that M. Pons had discovered, on the 24th of July, 

 the comet which M. Gambart noticed three days afterwards. 

 — M. Bory-Saint-Vincent read a note on a new apparatus for 

 drj'ing plants for herbariums. — M. Bailly read a memoir on 

 the cold intermittent fevers, and on the alteration of animal 

 heat in those maladies. 



Aug. 26. — M. Audibert communicated a memoir in which 

 he explained the means of raising stagnant water above its 

 level, by certain combinations of forces of water and air. — 

 Dr. Lauth read a memoir on the lymjihatic vessels of birds. 

 M. Moreau de .Tonnes read some geographical researches on 

 manioc, and on the limits of its culture among the aborigines 

 of the New World. — Some further observations by M. Gaillon 

 were read, supplementary to his memoir on the animalcula 

 which constitute the nutriment of oysters. 



Aug. 23. — M. Hressy, a ))hysician at Arpajon, communi- 

 cated a nvAX\\i%cr\\)Vcnl\\.W-d Manosphoye. — M. deBeaujeu com- 

 numicated an account of a new method of transporting soils 

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