156 Botanical Fétes in France. 
3d. At Panis, the members of the section, under the 
presidency of M. Pietry, titulary of the parent society, made 
their excursion in the plains of Montrouge. Many strangers 
and a number of ladies attended the session in which there 
was a discourse from M. Pietry ; a memoir on the Botanical. 
topography of the Isle of France, by M. Maillard; a memoir 
on ossification, by M. Lalanne ; an interesting morceau on 
antidotes, by M. Venot; and a piece of poetry, entitled Piron, 
botanist, by M. Derratier. 
4th. Rocuercrt. The excursion was made in the place 
called Mouriere, and the session was held in a cabinet of ver- 
ure. It was opened by M..Boin, M D. president. He 
brought into view the origin of the parent society, and the 
formation of the Linnean section of Rochefort. M. Rejou 
pronounced the Eulogium of the late Tochon Dupuy, founder 
of the Botanic Garden of the city. M. Follet, professor of 
botany, secretary, a /zstortcal eulogium on Bernard de Jus- 
ieu. The other prelectors were M. Rejoy, fils, and Lan- 
guadin. 
5th. At Ocennes, (lower Pyrennees,) the respectable M. 
Patasson, author of memoirs on the Pyrennees, &c. opened the 
session by a description of the site where the section was col- 
lected. Among the readings was a notice on the paragréles, 
by the Baron de Vallier; the report of several excursions 
made in the valley of Asp, &c. by M. Labarrere; and a piece 
sent by M. Laterrade, on the situation of plants and their 
influence on the character of man 
6th. At Monrrexier a new section has been created 
under the presidency of M. Raffenau Delitte, professor of the 
faculty. This section was installed in the conservatory of 
the Jardin-du-Roi, where the bust of Linnewus was elevated 
upon steps garnished with flowers, in the midst of which was 
observed the modest Linnza borealis. The excursion was rich 
in plants and observations. 
7th. At Narsonne the excursion and the session took 
place on the borders of the Mediterranean, and under the 
ey of M. Julia, M. D. who had just arrived from 
arcelona. 
| every place, meteorological observations, which will be 
ublished in the Annuary of 1823, (now in press,) were made 
tween noon and one o’ciock. In every place, a banquet 
king, and in this way were terminated those feasts, so unique 
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