148 Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris. 



Stapleton, Esq. at Carlton, Yorkshire. By Mr. John Seymour, 

 Gardener to Mr. Stapleton. 



A Report upon the new or rare Plants which have flowered 

 in the Society's Garden at Chiswick, from its first formation 

 up to March 1824. By Mr. John Lindley, F.L.S. &c, 

 Assistant Secretary for the Garden. 



Aug. 3. — The following Papers were read : 



On the Advantages of Coating Garden Walls with Oil 

 Paint. By William Cotton, Esq. F.H.S. 



On the Cure of Disease in Onions. By Mr. Thomas Smith. 



Aug. 17. — On Artificial Climate considered with regard to 

 Horticulture. By John Frederick Daniell, Esq., F.R.S. &c. 

 In this highly interesting Paper, Mr. Daniell explains the 

 whole phenomena of Radiation, and points out the best means 

 of preventing the destruction of Plants, &c. by Frost. The 

 artificial climate of the Hot-house is also treated of, and the 

 errors of the usual modes of Heating fully explained. 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS. 



April 5. — M. Thenard, in the name of a Commission, pre- 

 sented a very favorable report relative to the experiments com- 

 municated by M. Serulas, on the Cyanuret of Iodine. — The 

 Memoir of this able chemist will be printed in the Rccueil dcs 

 Savans ctrangcrs. — M. Cuvier read a Memoir on a new genus of 

 Fossil Reptiles, discovered within these few years in England, 

 and named Ichthyosaurus. — M. Frison communicated a de- 

 monstration of the Theorem of Fermat. — M. Audouart read 

 some considerations on the origin and causes of the Yellow 

 Fever. 



April 12. — A communication was received from M. Ringler, 

 who has invented two Machines representing the Movements 

 of the Planets, requesting that a Commission may be ap- 

 pointed to examine them. — M. de Castel-Bajac requested the 

 Academy would cause the conditions to be examined, to which 

 it will be necesary to subject the plates of Fusible Metal, 

 which the Government had in contemplation to adapt to 

 the boilers of Steam-engines. — Professor SimonofF, of Kazan, 

 presented a Memoir on the Integral Calculus. — M. Magendie 

 communicated an observation which he had lately made on 

 the eflects of the lesion of the great commissure of the Cere- 

 bellum, above the passage of the fifth pair. The animal 

 subjected to this experiment fell down on the side on which 

 the nervous tissue was divided, and lost the agreement of 

 motion of its eyes. — M. du Petit-Thouars read the first part 

 of a Report which he had drawn up, in the name of a Com- 

 mission, on a notice of M. Romain respecting the Anatomy 



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