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areport which he inteched to read at this session, but was prevented 
by the interruption of Communication between Moscow and Peters- 
burgh. ‘The 11th volume of the memoirs of the Academy contains 
some posthumous dissertations of Evier, who, before his death, 
manifested the desire that the memoirs of the Academy should con- 
tain some of his works during the forty consecutive years after his 
decease. They have in fact Aatidtied twenty five of its volumes. 
In 1823 the term of forty years having expired, there remained in the 
archives of the Academy some fourteen dissertations of the celebrated 
mathematician, now published in this 11th volume, conjointly with 
four dissertations of Scuuserr and thirteen of Fuss. They have 
continued the printing of the Species Graminium of Trintus, the 
work of Kreprer on crystallography, the Mongolian grammar of 
Scurinpt, the Russian translation of the calcul differentiel et inte- 
gral of M. Cancuy, by Bouniakovsky. The number of disserta- 
tions and manuscripts read to the Academy in the 40 sessions it held 
during the year 1830, amounted to 50. After the statement of M. 
Fuss was gone through, M. Hess ‘read, in French, a dissertation on 
Waerthite, a new mineral, discovered in the neighborhood of Peters- 
burgh ; and afterwards in Russ, the report of M. Henz, on his ex- 
pedition to Bakoer. M.-Fuss, perpettal secretary, read after him, 
& memoir on the population of Russia, prepared by M. Ovvanor, 
President of the Academy. —Rev. Ency. Fev. 1831. 
4. Antique Medals found near Geneva.—In November last, Dr. 
Dufresne, in digging at his country seat near Chéne, found about one 
hundred Roman Coins, in bronze, most of which are in perfect pres- 
— They are nearly all of the Emperors Constantine the 
t, Constantine Il. Constans, Constant If. Magnentius, Decen- 
tius, Valentinian 1. One large piece, however, is of Antoninus Pius, 
and there are two of Marcus Aurelius, in admirable preservation, 
and a small number of coins of Galliénus and Claude le Gothie. 
This discovery is remarkable, inasmuch as coins of the Constantine 
family are very rarely found in this country, all those discovered for 
many. years past being of an anterior date. 
A more interesting discovery was that made one or two years ago, 
at Bonneville, of a small figure of Cybéle in silver, in the finest con- 
dition. This little statue, very rare, appears to be of the 2d certury. 
it belongs to the Museum of Geneva.—Byd. Univ. Jan, 1831. 
