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in curing the yellow fever at Vera Cruz, under the care of Dr. Chabert; 

 — A letter from M. Aldini, who requested the appointment of a com- 

 mission to examine the methods by which he proposed to protect fire- 

 men from being burnt ; — A letter from M. Antomarchi on the non- 

 communication of the lymphatic vessels and the capillary vessels ; — 

 Note from M. Payen on the limits of the temperature at which native 

 sulphate of lime loses its water of crystallization; — M. Lisfranc read 

 a memoir On superficial cancers which had been supposed to be deep, 

 and observations on the cases in which persons have been preserved 

 from the amputation of important organs. — M. Chabrier read a me- 

 moir On the means of travelling in the air. 



The Section of Chemistry gave in the following list of candidates 

 for the place of assistant professor of pharmacy at Montpellier : 

 M. Balard ; M. Regimbeau, sen.; and M. Bories. 



October 12. — Manuscripts .—A sealed packet from M. Caillot ; — ■ 

 Note from M. Niles respecting two young men, aged 18 years, united 

 by the umbilicus; — A letter from M. de Humboldt to M. Arago, 

 containing an abridged account of his important journey to Siberia, 

 and towards the frontiers of Mongolia. — M. Cuvier read a memoir On 

 a new kind of intestinal worm, which is named he'catoncotyle. — 

 M. Poisson read a memoir On the equilibrium and movement of solid, 

 elastic and fluid bodies. — M. Mathieu read a report respecting M. 

 Chauvin's scale for facilitating the making of plans : the instrument 

 is good, but must be very costly. — M. Lisfranc read a memoir On 

 the excision of the lower part of the rectum. 



M. Balard was unanimously elected to the place vacant in the 

 School of Pharmacy at Montpellier. 



October 1 9. — Manuscripts : — A sealed packet from M. Baudeloque, 

 containing new processes relating to midwifery; — A sealed packet 

 from M. Pelletier relating to some unfinished chemical products;-— 

 A sealed packet from M. Samuel Bauss of Vevey, containing chemical 

 products; — A memoir On the property of projectile force in the con- 

 stitution of simple bodies, by M. Menier d'Aleth. — M. Robineau 

 Desvoidy announced that in opening a viper (usually called the red 

 serpent), he found more than 3000 young ones in various states in the 

 uterus. — M. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire reported respecting twins, aged 

 18 years, who are attached by the belly — M. Dupetit Thouars gave 

 an account of the processes proposed by M. Gautheron for the in- 

 stantaneous production of the figures of plants, leaves and flowers.— 

 M. Sturm read a memoir, intitled "A new theory relating to a class 

 of transcendental functions." 



October 26. — Manuscripts : — A sealed packet from MM. Audouin 

 and Milne Edwards; — Memoir respecting an hydraulic machine, by 

 M. Sallier ; — Note respecting a repeating circle by M. Lenoir, senior ; 

 — A request from M. Morlet that the Academy would give an account 

 . of a work whieh he had presented on the displacing and change of 

 form in the magnetic equator. 



The Academy afterwards heard a report by M. Bronguiart on a 

 memoir of M. Beaumont's, On the relative ages of the different moun- 

 tain chains of Europe; — A very favourable report by M, Cuvier on 



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