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family of theRubiaceae ; — An Essay On the isochronism of the spiral 

 springs of a chronometer, without steel, and various notes, by M. 

 Houriet ; — Letter from M. Bories, requesting to be placed on the 

 list of candidates for the professorship of Pharmacy at Montpellier ; 

 — Remainder of the late JNI. Paulet's treatise On the manufacture 

 of silks, presented by his son ; — M. Cassini made a very favourable 

 report respecting the great work of M. Achille Richard, On the ge- 

 neral study of the family of the Rubiaceae ; — M. Dumeril gave an ad- 

 vantageous account of M. Rouliin's memoir relating to the effects 

 of the ergot of Maize upon man and animals. According to M. 

 Mathieu's report, it does not appear that M. Vaucher's instrument 

 for tracing parallels, contains any thing remarkable; — M. Girard 

 gave a verbal analysis of the new history of the external navigation 

 of France, published by M, Dutems; — M. Blainville read a memoir 

 on the Gauga. At the request of M. Amussat, his communication 

 On the torsion of the arteries was read; it was deposited in a sealed 

 packet on the 20th of last June.— The section of medicine and sur- 

 gery presented the following list of candidates for the vacant place 

 of Correspondent : MM. Meckel of Halle; Fodere of Strasbourg; 

 Bretonneau of Tours; Abercronibie of Edinburgh; Lallemand of 

 Montpellier ; Barbier of Amiens, and Braschet of Lyons. 



Aug. 3L — Manuscripts : — Royal ordonnance of the 23d August, 

 relating to the employment of the legacy of Monthyon ; — A sealed 

 packet by M. Cottereau ; — Memoir by M. Monpensier On the 

 quadrature of the circle. NL Meckel had a majority of votes for 

 the place of Correspondent. — The Academy afterwards heard: 

 Meditations on Nature, by ^L Geoffrey- Saint-Hilaire ; — A Memoir 

 by ^L Cauchy On the application of the calculus of residua;— And 

 a memoir by M. Amussat On a new process for stopping haemor- 

 rhages from arteries and veins. 



LIL Intelligence and Miscelhmeous ylrticles. 



DISCUSSIONS IN THE FRENCH ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 

 BETWEEN M. GEOFFROY-SAINT-IIILAIRE AND THE BARON 

 CUVIER, RESPECTING THE UNITY OF ORGANIZATION IN ANI- 

 MALS, AND THE ANALOGIES BY WHICH THEY ARE CON- 

 NECTED. 



[.As the subject of the following controversy appears to be exciting 

 much attention upon the Continent, we think our zoological readers 

 will be pleased with our devoting a few pages to it. We have 

 only to add that it has been suggested to us that Mr. W. 8. Mac- 

 Leay's* views respecting the osculant position of the Cephalopoda 

 between the Moilusca and the Vertebrata, wiiJ probably be found 

 to reconcile M. Cuvier's statement with that of his opponent, 



* A writer in the Quarterly Review, instead of fairly invcstigatin;^ or 

 coinbatiiiq; the views of Mr. MiicLeay has, it is allcj^cd, greatly niisrepre- 

 sonie.l tlicm. Tlml our rcailcrs ma)' tliC hotter jutlL;e Wn thenisclvcs, we 

 shall prolialjly in some Cutine Xuinber confront the re[)rcsentati8ns of the 

 Reviewer with the original. 



3C2 without 



