Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris. 31 J. 



Jpril 10. — M. G. de St. Ililaire continued tlie report of his 

 researches in the establishment for artificial incubation at Auteuil. 

 M. M. Latreille and 13osc gave a report on M. Dcjean's memoir on 

 the genera forming the tribe of simpUdpides among the Carabidcc. 

 M. Marcel de Serres announced that he had recently found a great 

 femur among the fossil bones at Montpellier. 



May 1. — M. Bory de St. Vincent read part of a letter addressed 

 to him by M. Pason, a Spanish naturalist, respecting the naturali- 

 zation of cochineal in the environs of Malaga. 



May 8. — Mr. Edwards read a memoir on the connexion between 

 the vegetable and animal kingdoms. 



May 15. — M. Latreille made a verbal report on the second 

 volume of M. Dejean's work on the species of Coleoptera in his 

 collection. 



jlnnual Public sitting of the Academy on June 5. — Among the 

 works reported on very favourably by the Monthyon prize Com- 

 mittee was Dr. Lippi's Comparative-anatomical illustrations of the 

 lymphatico-chyliferous system. Among the prizes proposed for 

 1827, were the following: for a general and comprehensive his- 

 tory of the circulation of the blood in the four classes of ver- 

 tebrated animals, before and after birth, and at different ages, a 

 gold medal, value 3000 francs; as no satisfactory memoirs had 

 been received for the Alhumbert prize, the Academy determined 

 that the sum destined for it in 1826 should be united with those 

 which will be due hereafter, to form a prize of 1200 francs, to be 

 awarded, in 1829, to the best memoir on the following subject; a 

 complete examination, accompanied with figures, of the changes 

 undergone by the skeletons and muscles of Frogs and Salamanders 

 at the different epochs of their life. 



June 12. — M. Latreille presented some recent specimens of 

 Curdium edule, found in an alluvium at Abbeville, at the depth 

 of about twenty-three feet, and at the distance of four leagues 

 from the sea in which these animals live. M. Michelot announced 

 that M. Billaudel, civil engineer at Bordeaux, had discovered, in 

 a quarry on the banks of the Garonne, a cavern in which he found 

 a quantity of bones of various animals; among tliem the jaws of 

 the Ilyajna, of the Lion or the Tiger, and of the Badger, bones 

 of the Ox, &c. E.W. B. 



