Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris. 309 



situations, \vith reference to their climates, appear particularly 

 adapted. 



Were we to attempt an anal3'sis of this part, in which the author 

 treats o? disorders of the digestive organs, of consumption, of disorders 

 of the larynx, trachea and bronchea, gout, chronic rheumatism, general 

 delicacy of constitution in childhood and yoidh, premature decay at a 

 more advanced period of life, and of disordered health from hot cli- 

 mates, — we should far exceed our prescribed limits, and at the same 

 time be encroaching on the province of the more exclusively medi- 

 cal reviewer. 



We must not however take leave of the volume without strongly 

 recommending it to our readers; and remarking, that, whilst it con- 

 tains much valuable information for the professional man, the style 

 and matter are such as to fit it for the general reader, and render 

 it extremely attractive to those who, eitlier on their own account 

 or on that of their friends, feel a special interest in the curative or 

 prophylactic influences of climate. 



XLIX. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL ^ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS. 

 March 2.—]\fANUSCRlPTS presented to the Academy : Tables 

 for teaching arithmetic, by M. Fabret. — New obser- 

 vations respecting a method which will admit of weavers working in 

 all kinds of apartments, by M. Dubui. — Upon a portable reflective 

 compass for observing the diurnal variations of the horizontal needle, 

 by M. Babinet; and a sealed packet by the same. 



M. Dumeril, in the name of a commission, gave a favourable ac- 

 count of the memoir by MM. Villerme and Edwards, on the influence 

 of temperature on the mortality of new-born infants. 



M. Mirbel, in the name of a commission, gave a disadvantageous 

 report on M. Aiguebelle's new processes for drawing, which he terms 

 hotnographjj. 



MM. Cuvier, Fourier, Poinsot, Gay-Lussac, Th^nard, and Desfon- 

 taines, were constituted a commission to name candidates for the ap- 

 pointment of foreign associate, vacant by the death of Dr.Wollaston. 

 — M. Cagnurd-Latour read a memoir on the action of acids upon 

 carbon. — M. Jobert read a dissertation upon a lower jaw of the An- 

 tracotherium, discovered on the riglit bank of the Allier, in the de- 

 partment of I'uy-de-Dume. — M. Poisson presented a notice relating 

 to the imaginary roots of transcendental equations. 



March !). — Manuscripts presented: A letter from Dr. Cottereau 

 on the advantageous employment of chlorine gas in |)hthisis. — 

 Considerations on the true crou]), and means of cure when at the 

 worst period, by M. IJertonneau.— On a new mode of breaking the 

 .stone, by M. Ilcurteloup. — A sealed packet of new surgical instru- 

 ments, by M. Tancliou. — A letter from M. Le (iigant, to obtain the de- 

 cision of the Academy respecting some precious stones which are in his 

 jxjssession.— A letter from M. Cabinet on his method of determining 

 the intensity of terrestrial magnetism at I'aris. - M. Fourier presented 



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