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Secretaries. — William Henry Fitton,M.D.F.R.S. Charles 



Lyell, Esq. F.L.S.— Mr. Thomas Webster. 



Foreign Secretary. — Henry Heuland, Esq. 



Treasurer. — John Taylor, Esq. 



Council. — Hon. Hen. Grey Bennet, M.P. F.R.S.— Rev. 

 William Buckland, F.R.S. Prof. Geol. & Min. Oxford.— Hen. 

 James Brooke, Esq. F.R. & L.S.— Henry Thomas Colebrooke, 

 Esq. F.R. & L.S.— Major Thomas Colby, LL.D. F.R.S. 

 L. & E.— Thomas Horsfield, M.D. F.L.S.— James Laird, 

 M.D.— Charles Stokes, Esq. F.R. A. & L.S.— Thomas Smith, 

 Esq. F.R. & L.S.— Henry Warburton, Esq. F.R.S.— Philip 

 Barker Webb, Esq. F.L.S.— William Hyde Wollaston, M.D. 

 F.R.S. 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PARIS. 



Nov. 4, 1822. M. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire presented a Me- 

 moir On a single and general Cause of Monstrosities; the 

 first part, which was read, is entitled " Of Monstrosity con- 

 sidered in its relations with the question of the pre-existence 

 of Germs." 



The following list of candidates for the vacancy among the 

 Foreign Associates was presented, and their several claims dis- 

 cussed: Messrs. Wollaston, Berzelius, Olbers, T. Young, 

 Dalton, De Buch, Brown, Soemmering. 



Nov. 11. On a scrutiny taking place in the election of a 

 Foreign Associate, (the Committee having presented Dr. Wol- 

 laston in the first rank, and M. Berzelius in the second,) the 

 majority of suffrages was found to be in favour of M. Berzelius. 



Messrs. Fourier, Biot, and Arago were presented by a Com- 

 mittee, as candidates to succeed M. Delambre as Perpetual 

 Secretary of die Mathematical Sections. M. Arago declined on 

 account of the pressure of his present duties ; and at the elec- 

 tion which subsequently took place on the 1 8th the votes were, 

 for M. Fourier 38, M. Biot 10. 



M. Dclille read a description of Beninaza cerifaa, a new 

 genus of the Cucurbitaccas. A Memoir by M. Lamouroux was 

 also read. On the Animals of the Tubipora musica ,• and one 

 by M.Desvaux, On the Organs of Reproduction in Acotyledo- 

 nous Plants ; and on the Uniformity of these Organs, notwith- 

 standing their apparent difference. 



Nov. 18. M. Girard read a Memoir " On the Resistance of 

 Cast Iron, whether used for conduit j)ipes, or "for steam-engine 

 boilers." This having occasioned a discussion on the compa- 

 rative advantages of steam-engines of high and low pressure, 

 the Academy appointed Messrs. Laplace, Gay-Lussac, Girard, 



Ampere, 



