BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES : DUPETIT-THOUARS 899 
[‘* Bibliog. Fr.’’ 26 Mar. 1825. 
- Romain was Dupetit-Thouars’ old antagonist, C. Rom 
Féburier. (Féburier’s “ Précis d’ Anat. Vég.” 1824, tase, 
reprinted on pp. 51-2 of the above.) 
“4. = Eclaireissemens sur un Rapport fait & l’Académie se eo des 
Sciences.” Pp. 8vo. Paris, 1826. 
[‘* Bibliog. Fr.” 10 June, 1826, and * France Litt.” No 
fellostled elsewhere. | 
25. [Anon.] ‘“ Examen de deux mémoires de ir dome végétale, 
suivi de l’examen d’un passage d’un troisisme mém 
Genéve, comme les deux oe sous le titre de Mongraphia 
generis Polygont prodromus.” Pp, 32. 8yvo. 
[Férussac’s “ Bull, Sci. fa ” tom. xiii. (1888), » p. "66, ae 
recorded elsewhere. } 
26. “Remarques lues & la Société Philomatique . 1816 sur 
une note relative au Cambium et au Liber, lue par M. Mirbel.”’ 
Pp. 20. ; hihi oe 
[Privately printed. Férussac’s ‘Bull. Sci. Nat.” tom 
(1828), p. 860. Not recorded elsewhere.] 
27. “ Explication Sommaire de quelques figures destinées 4 faire 
voir jusqu’a quel point ces deux assertions sont vraies: 
L’ Plone age de la Nature est toujours conforme 4 sa 
eles trie. N. Grew... La Nature a plus de propension 
mployer le nombre cing que tout autre. T. Brown.... 
(Extrait des Travaux académiques).”  P. N. 
[Paris, _ 2] 
0. 
Sixteen = = explanatory | text. There is an 
allusion to this ‘* Mémoire” in Flourens’ Eloge 
(op. ¢ it. P. 
I have come to Bh conclusion —_ these eng were prepared 
by Dupetit-Thouars to illustrate a paper read before the 
Academy of Sciences in 1898, an Fitted of which, by 
Cuvier, was — in the « Analyse des Travaux’’* for tha 
year (Mém. Acad. Sci. Paris, tom. xi. 1832, pp. dix-clxi, 
and, in sides e, in Férussac’s ‘‘ Bull. Sci. Nat.’’ tom. xxi. 
1830, pp. 422- “435), That he hoped to induce the Academy 
to publish the Hlasteatieea is evident from his statemeut at 
the bottom of the title, «‘ Extrait des Travaux académiques.”’ 
They never did appear, his theories not being acceptable 
to the authorities of shone days; but in one réepect 
has brought siren? as the following extract from the 
“Analyse” will sh 
‘*Ces observations intéresbeld dichmnes aac M. DuPetit- 
houars, parce qu’elles lui fournissent l'occasion de 
présenter sous un nouveau jour . cette proposition, 
que la fleur n'est autre chose qu'une ' transformation de la 
* Probably a good many interesting observations by Dupetit-Thouars are 
buried in these ae al sumnaaries, the bai of which have not been indexed 
by the Royal Societ 
