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and llie planetary spaces. — M. Bonard read a geological no- 

 tice on certain districts of Burgundy. 



Sept. 29. — M. Desfontaines made a verbal report on Sir 

 James Edward Smith's English Flora. — M. Fourier concluded 

 his memoir. — M. Geoff'roy de Saint-Hilaire read a memoir, 

 entitled On the sections of the cranium in the crocodile, 

 compared with the analogous bones in all animals ; restored, 

 on the one hand, to philosophical identity, and considered, on 

 the other, in the relation of the specific nature and the ano- 

 malies of their forms. 



Oct. 4. — M. P. Coste, an officer in the artillery service, 

 transmitted a sealed packet, inscribed " Chemical Researches." 

 — M. de Schutten, professor of mathematics in the university 

 of Abo, presented a memoir on the concussion of solid bodies. 

 — M. le Baron Blin, communicated to the Academy a notice 

 of his experiments with the Syrene of M. le Baron Cagniard 

 de la Tour. — M. Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire read the continua- 

 tion of his memoir on the sections of the cranium. — M. La- 

 mouroux read a memoir on the geography of marine plants. 



Oct. 11. — M. Jomard communicated some information 

 which he had received from M. Beaufort's expedition into the 

 interior of Africa : he presented specimens of the butter of 

 Schaa, and of the oil of palm-trees collected by that traveller. 

 Dr. Lassis read a manuscript, entitled Notice on the causes 

 of epidemic disorders, on the means by which it is said they 

 may be resisted, and on some other points of medical science 

 equally important. — M. Vaucjuelin gave a report on M. Lau- 

 gier's analysis of three minerals brought from Ceylon and the 

 coast of Coromandel by M. Leschenault de la Tour. — 

 M. Marcel de Serres read a memoir on the fresh-water 

 strata lately discovered in the vicinity of Cette, near the Medi- 

 terranean, and below the level of that sea. — M. de Bonard 

 read a geological memoir on the plains of the Auxois. 



Oct. 18. — M. Laugier reail a memoir, entitled Chemical 

 examination of the Fer oxide [rcsinite of Haiiy) found near 

 Freiberg. — M. Becquerel read a memoir on the electro- 

 dynamic effects produced during the decomposition of oxy- 

 genated water by various bodies, and on other phaenomena 

 caused by electricity in motion. — M. Brunei, of Varenne, com- 

 municated a new method of drawing. — M. Benoiston, of Cha- 

 teauneuf, communicated a notice on M. Casjjcr's work relating 

 to the uifluence of vaccination on the population of the Prussian 

 states. — M. Gaymard read some observations on certain mol- 

 lusca and zoophytes, considered as the cause of the phospho- 

 rescence of the sea. 



Oct. 26.— M. Gazil stated that he wished to submit to the 

 judgement of the Academy a process of his hivcntion lor ren- 

 dering 



