Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. 145 



ments are made for the continuance and regular appearance 

 of this national work on the Indigenous Botany of this King- 

 dom; and from the eminent and well-known talents of the 

 Editor, Dr. Hooker, Regius Protessor of Botany at Glasgow, 

 the public may rest with confidence on the intrinsic merit it 

 will possess. — The last number of the New Series contains the 

 following : Osmunda regalis — Myosotis aipestris — Aristolochia 

 Clematitis — Cochlearia officinalis — Melampyrum sylvaticum — 

 Cheiranthus Cheiri. 



Dr. Hooker's Exotic Flora has not come to our hands, but 

 will be noticed in our next. 



We regi-et that a suspension has occurred in the publication 

 of Mr. Lindley's Collectanea Botanica. We hope this has only 

 been occasioned by temporary circumstances. It is a work 

 highly interestmg to the scientific botanist, and reflects both 

 credit and honour on the author; the plates contain the most 

 ample dissections of the essential parts of each flower ; the 

 descriptions are copious, and interspersed with many in- 

 teresting observations. The intention of the work is to in- 

 clude such only of our botanical novelties as have not akeady 

 appeared in the publications of the day. 



XXIV. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN PARIS. 



IVl. Geoffroy St. Hilaire stated that an anim.al from Se- 

 negal, called Grqmrt by Buffbn, and Felisjubata by Linnaeus, 

 had arrived live at the Jardin des Plantcs. 



M. du Petit Thouars read a memoir entided " New Ob- 

 sen'ations on the removal of a complete circle of bark." 



M. Arago announced that the earthquake which took place 

 in the western part of France was also felt in Paris. The 

 register of magnetic observations at the observatory, un- 

 der the 31st of May 1822, at a quarter past eight o'clock in 

 the morning, states as follows : " The needle oscillates ra- 

 pidly, and like a pendulum, from cast to west: consequently, 

 the reason of this motion is independent of magnetism." 



M. Cuviei- read a memoir on a new gciuis of iossil animals 

 raised from the coal-mines ofCadibona, near Savona, which he 

 calls Antrucothcrima. 



M. DuiiiL-rii rc'ijorlod on M. Sigalas's nicmoif; according 

 to which, the mesenteric veins are endowed with the absorbent 

 faculty lor certain substances other than chyle, as M. Magen- 

 die had Ix-lbre stated. The memoir has been appi oved. 



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