560 Zoological Proceedings of Societies. 



March 14. — M. Cuvier read a Memoir, On the Myripristis, a 

 new genus of Fishes of the family of Perches, remarkable for the 

 connexion of its swimming-bladder with its ear. M. Auzoux pre- 

 sented a specimen of artificial anatomy, " en pate de carton,^'' 



March 21 — The Academy received in manuscript, A Nero 

 Classification of the Animal Kingdom^ by M. Lamouroux. M. 

 Cuvier read a letter from M. Bredin, Director of the Veterinary 

 College of Lyons, on the Fossil Bones discovered in a garden at 

 Calvire, in a place called la Croix-Rousse. They have belonged 

 to Horses, Oxen, and Elephants, and there are several assem- 

 blages of them. M. Cuvier has recognized them to be truly fossil 

 bones ; those of Elephants are of the species called the Mammoth, 

 or the common fossil Elephant. M. Cuvier afterwards read a 

 Memoir, On the Fresh-water Fishes of India^ which have the 

 power of living for a long time out of water, and on the organs 

 from which they derive this power. These Fishes are found on 

 the trees growing on the banks of certain ponds, at the height of 

 six feet above the water. 



March 28. — M. G. Saint-Hilaire exhibited the head of a mon- 

 strous Colt, foaled two days before at the Veterinary College at 

 Alfort, and which he had dissected with M. Serres. This head, 

 the left side of which is much larger than the right, does not pre- 

 sent, at first sight, in the interior of the cranium, any traces of 

 foramina or of optic nerves, although the eyes were in appearance 

 well formed. M. Serres purposes, by means of compacrative re- 

 searches on the eyes of the Mole and of some other animals, to 

 explain the anomalies in this Colt's head by the common rules of 

 Encephalogenesis. M. TrauUe read A Sketch on the Deluge, 

 on its consequences and producing cause, and on the occurrence 

 in the North of the two Continents, of the Bones of Animals 

 belonging to southern Climates. 



April 4. — M. M. Portal and Dumeril gave a very favourable 

 report on M. Auzoux's specimen of artificial anatomy. 



April 11. — M. G. Saint-Hilaire read a Memoir, entitled Re' 

 searches on some facts respecting the organization of the Gavials, 

 and on the necessity of separating them from the Crocodiles, as a 

 distinct genus. 



