Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris. 219 



that adults cannot grow one single inch during the rest of 

 their lives ; — a tenet evidently altogether at variance with 

 the doctrine of "existing causes" and "the uniformity of 

 nature" as developed in the work before us. 

 I remain, yours, &c. 

 Sully, Cardiff, Aug. 20, 1830. W. D. CoNYBEARE. 



XXXVI. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS. 



1 829. JlfANUSCR IP TS . — A sealed packet by M. A. San- 



August 24, son j — Note from MM. Francois and Caventou, 



On the medicinal properties of the root of a Brasilian shrub of the 

 family of the Rubiacece • — Essay On the isochronism of the spiral 

 springs of a chronometer without steel, and various notes, by 

 M. Houriet ; — A letter from M. Bories, who requests to be placed 

 upon the list of candidates for the vacant place of assistant professor 

 of pharmacy at Montpellier ; — The remainder of the Treatise On 

 the manufacture of silk goods, by the late M. Paulet, presented 

 by his son. M. Cassini made a very favourable report respecting 

 M. A. Richard's great work on the general study of the family of 

 the Rubiacece. — M. Dumeril also gave an advantageous account 

 respecting the memoir of M. Roullin relating to the effects of 

 the ergot of maize on men and animals. — M. Mathieu reported 

 that M. Vaucher's instrument intended for tracing parallels, offered 

 nothing remarkable. — M. Girard gave a verbal analysis of the 

 new history of the internal navigation of France, which M. Du» 

 terns lately published. — M. Blainville read a memoir On the gauza. 

 — At the request of M. Amussat, the reading of his labours on the 

 torsion of arteries was resumed. — The sealed packet which contained 

 this note was deposited on the 20th of June. — The Section of Me- 

 dicine and Surgery presented the following list of candidates for the 

 vacant place of correspondent: MM. Meckel of Halle ; Fodere" of 

 Strasburgh; Bretonneau of Tours; Abercrombie of Edinburgh ; Lal- 

 lemand of Montpellier; Barbier of Amiens ; and Braschet of Lyons. 



August 31. — Manuscripts: — Royal ordonnance of the 23rd of 

 August relative to the employment of the legacies of the late M. Mon- 

 thyon ; — A sealed packet by M. Cottereau; — Memoir by M. Mon- 

 pensier on the quadrature of the circle. 



M. Meckel had the majority of votes as corresponding member. 

 The Academy afterwards heard Meditations on Nature by M. Geof- 

 froy- Saint- H ilaire ; — A memoir by M. Cauchy, On the applications 

 of the calculus; — And a memoir by M. Amussat, intitled, " A new 

 process for stopping hemorrhages in wounded arteries and veins." 



September 7. — Manuscripts : — Letter from the Minister of the In- 

 terior, containing a report of the Prefet of the Upper Rhine, respect- 

 ing an earthquake felt in that department on the 7th of last August; 

 — A letter from the Minister of War respecting an offer which had 



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