1860.] On recent Bussian Sesear ches. 199 



Caspian coasts in the 9th century. M. Brosset has published a 

 Dissertation on political relations between Bussia and Georgia since 

 1586, and also a History of Georgia, the work of eighteen years' 

 hard labour. Great interest is taken in pointing out the connection 

 between the Zend and Slavonic languages. Wasselief of Kazan is 

 engaged in a series of researches into Buddhism and also into the 

 Tibetan language — while Schiefner in 185á read an interesting paper 

 on the Ceylon, Nepal and Asam coins in the Academy of St. Peters- 

 burgh. 



During the year 1857 Memoirs were read on the following sub- 

 jects : 



TJie nebulosity of Orion, by M. Otto Struve. 



The Secular perturbations of the great planets, by M. Perevost- 

 cliikof. 



Besearches on the elasticity of metáis, by M. Kupffer. 



The quiclcness of rotation on the current produced by magneto- 

 electric machines, by M. Leng. 



On simplifying and expressing popularly the forces of electricity, 

 by M. Jacobi. 



On isothermal Unes in Bussian Maps, by Vesseloosky. 



Crystalised combinations of Hydrocarbures neutores, by M. 

 Fritzsch. 



Action of azotic acid Sfc. Sfc. by Ditto. 



Contributions to a Geology of Bussia, by M. Kokcharof. 



On salt genuine and its geological site in Armenian Bussia, by M. 

 (Ebich. 



On certain fauna and flora near Lake Aral, by Ditto. 



The Geological Map of the Caucasus, by Ditto. 



An inflammable gas in the Cráter of Vesuvius and its periodical 

 changes, by Ditto. 



The vegetation of the Amour, by M. Buprecht. 



The flora of Bussia, TJmbellifercB of Kamskatlcha, by Ditto. 



On Embryos formed ivithout fecundation, by Ditto. 



The changes produced in the soil of Novogorod hy drainage, by 

 M. Jezelnof. 



On the Hareng fish of the Caspian, by M. Baer. 



The Mammiferce insectivores of Bussia. 



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