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M. Cordier gave a favourable account of the efforts of the officers 

 of La Chevrette, to contribute towards the progress of Geology j — 

 M. Daussy read a memoir On the geographical situations of Cairo, 

 of Alexandria, and some other points of the Mediterranean. 



The Section of Rural Economy presented to a secret committee the 

 following list of candidates for the vacant place of Correspondent : 

 MM. John Sinclair, Gasparin, Bonafous, Baron de Voght, Crud, 

 Bigot de Morogues, and Hartig. 



May 11. — Manuscripts : — New memoirs On indelible inks, pre- 

 sented by the Keeper of the Seals ; — A sealed packet by M. Vellot ; 

 — A letter On several physical subjects, by M. Dos Rios y Souza ; — 

 A letter from M. Baudelocque, On the methods of stopping uterine 

 hemorrhages ; —A memoir bv M. Destrem, On the fossil bones of 

 the caverns of Bize in Languedoc ; — An anonymous sealed packet 

 (presented by M. Dumeril) containing e.\periments which prove the 

 radical cure of a certain disease. 



M. D'Urville read an abridged account of his Voyage. 



A Correspondent vvas elected by ballot. M. Gasparin had 26 votes, 

 M. Sinclair 17, and M. Bonafous .5. 



May 18. — Manuscripts : — MemoirOn the integration of equations 

 of partial difference ; — A letter to M, Ternaux On the Silos which 

 he had constructed at Saint Ouen j — A letter from M. Deleau On 

 the place at which woods are formed ; — A letter from Heurteluup On 

 an elastic gum instrument for preventing the infiltration of the urine 

 after the operation for the stone ; — M. Dulong read a memoir On 

 the specific heats of elastic fluids. 



May 25. — Manuscripts : —Two memoirs by M. Suremain Misseri, 

 On the mathematical theory of music; — A work by M. Coriolis On the 

 theory of machines 3 — A note by M. CottereauOn a case of phthisis 

 cured by chlorine ; — A memoir by M. Sturm On the solution of 

 numerical equations ; — Algebraical researches by M. Evariste Galois. 



M. Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire presented the portrait of a monster now 

 existing at Turin ; it consists of two girls, separate to the waist, 

 and having only two legs. — M. Cuvier gave a very favourable report 

 respecting the fourth and fifth Geological Memoirs addressed to the 

 Academy during the voyage of the Astrolabe by MM. Quoy and 

 Gamard. — M. Dumeril gave a favourable account of a memoir On 

 monstrosities, presented by M. Le Sauvage, Professor at Caen. — 

 M. Puissant gave a verbal account of the first number of the Topo- 

 graphical Atlas of the Department of Puy-de-D6me, by M. Busset. — 

 A memoir was read by M. Savart On the structure of metals ; and 

 one by M. Cauchy On the equilibrium and motion of fluids. 



June I. — Manuscripts: — A letter from M. Olbers, who returned 

 thanks to the Academy for having elected him an Associate ; — De- 

 scription of the ci/stotomc suspenseur, a new surgical instrument, by 

 M. Tronchon ; — Theory of vibrations, and its application to various 

 physical phsenomena, by M. Le Baron Blein ; — A sealed packet by 

 M. Amusset ; — A memoir On the theory of equations, by M. Sturm ; 

 — A Theorem on the motion of heat in spheres, by the same ; — Re-' 

 starches on algebraic equations of the first degree, by M. Gallois ; — 



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