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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS. 
Acts of the Geographical Society of Paris. 
Meeting of the 3d April 1829.—His Excellency the Minister of Ecclesiastical 
Affairs, answered to the request of the Society, that he would open a correspond. 
ence with foreign missions, and said he would hasten, for the interest of science, 
to second their efforts, and assist in the accomplishment of their views. 
Mr. Jouannin communicated fragments of his travels, entitled, ‘‘ Remembrances 
of a Residence at Brousse, in Bithynia, in the year 1825, and Hot Springs of 
Brousse.”’ 
Mr. Warden communicated a notice of Major St. John Blacker, containing a 
relation of his journey into the Himmaleh, and a description of the Basin of 
Setledge. 
Meeting of the 10th April 1829.—-_Mr. Giraud communicated a notice of the 
expedition sent by the Government of the United States, to explore the Red 
River of Louisiana. 
Mr. Bottin gave an account of the memoirs of Marshal Suchet, Duke of Al- 
bufera, upon the campaigns in Spain, from 1808 to 1814. 
Meeting of the \st May 1829..-_Myr. Huber sent the continuation of some 
geographical and historical remarks on the Island of Cuba. 
Mr. Giraud addressed a note upon the communication between the Lake of 
Woods and Lake Winnepeck in North America. 
Mr. Warden communicated some new details on the journey of Major Blacker 
in the Himmaleh. 
Mr. Gauttier d’Arc announced to the Society his departure for Greece as 
vice-consul, attached to the scientific mission, offered his services, and demand- 
ed instructions from the Society. 
Meeting of the 15th May 1829.—Sir John Franklin thanked the Society for 
its suffrage, and for the gold medal which it had awarded to his last expedition 
to the Polar Seas. 
Mr. Thomas sent some observations to the Society, upon the geographical 
position of several islands situated to the north-west, to the north, and to the 
north-east of the Isle of Bourbon, from the indications given by Horsburgh and 
Lislet-Geoffroy. 
Baron Derfelden communicated new details on the intended publication of a 
chart of the eastern colonies of Holland. 
Mr. Abrahamson sent the continuation of his map for his atlas of Denmark. 
Mr. Jullien called the attention of the Society to the earthquake, of whose ac- 
tion Spain had just been the theatre. He thought it would be important for the 
interest of science and humanity, to send several observers upon the spot, to 
obtain information of the circumstances which preceded, accompanied, and fol- 
lowed the phenomenon. 
Academy of Sciences. 
Meeting of the 29th July 1829.—-Mr. Becquerel acquainted the Academy 
with the result of several experiments, in which he has succeeded in decomposing 
the carbonate of sulphur by electric actions of very little intensity. 
Mr. J. Pinet addressed a letter containing the details of an experiment on 
germination, 






