ggo Captain Parri/s Expcdilion. 



March 17. — M. Chaptal gave a favourable Report of M. Al- 

 buquerque's Elementary Tables of Inorganic Cliemislry. 



M. Moreau de Jonnes read his Researches on the conditions 

 of vegetable organization requisite for the diflercnt modes of 

 the geographical transportation of plants by natural agents. 



March 2^. — Dr. Wollaston vias elected a foreign n)ember 

 of the Academy, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of 

 Dr. Jenner. 



M. Poisson read a Memoir on the Propagation of Motion 

 in Elastic Fluids. 



M. Cuvier presented a human skeleton incrusted with lime- 

 stone, which had recently been found at Guadaloupe. 



M. Bory-Saint- Vincent read an Essay on the Physical 

 Geography of Spain. 



March 31. — A Notice by M. Chaudruc de Crazanes Avas 

 read, On the use of Oyster- shells in the ancient buildings of 

 the town of Saintes. 



M. Vanhagen communicated a Dissertation on the Agree- 

 ment of the Colour of the Epidermis in the Inhabitants of the 

 Tropical Regions. 



M. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire communicated his observations 

 on a doo- with three heads, exhibited to the Academy. 



M. Ampere described some new experiments of M. Pouillet, 

 on the electrical effects produced by the contact of mercury 

 and bismuth. 



M. Poisson read a Notice on the Phaenomena of coloured 

 Rings. 



M. Brochant gave a verbal Report on a work entitled Lexi- 

 con Mincralogicum Enneaglotiwn, by Dr. Michael Kovats, of 

 Pest. 



IVl. Qilrsted read a Notice on the experiments which he had 

 made with M. Fourier ; from which it appears that the thermo- 

 electric effects excited by inequalities of temperature may be 

 multiplied by means of the alternate repetition of bars of dif- 

 ferent substances. 



LXXXI. Intelligence and MisceJkmeoiis Articles. 



CAPTAIN parry's EXPEDITION. 



IN our Number for February, p. 1 42, we inserted a then 

 current report, that the Discovery Ships under Captain 

 Parry had been seen oft' Icy Cape ; but the following contra- 

 diction of it by Capt. Krusenstern has appeared in the Frank- 

 fort papers. " In Enghsh and French journals, which have been 

 copied by the Cicrman, among others by the Hamburgh pa- 

 pers, 



