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Academy of Sciences, Sept. 13.—M. Frémy in the chair.—The following papers were read:—A note by M. Faye relating to the approaching eclipse of the sun.—M. Bertrand then made some remarks on the paper read at the last meeting by M. Bienaymé.—Report on a memoir by M. Lefort, entitled “Critical examination of the basis of calculation usually adopted to appreciate the stability of metal bridges with straight prismatic beams, and propositions for the adoption of a new basis.”— Report on M. Boussinesq's paper on the theory of flowing waters.—Memoir on the observations made at Peking of the Transit of Venus, by Mr. J. C. Watson, chief of the American expedition.—A note on the greasy matter in the grain of the oil-tree of China, by M. S. Cloez.—On the development of Heteropoda, by M. H. Fol.—On the migrations and metamorphoses of marine endoparasitic Trematoda, by M. A. Villot.—On some reactions of hæmoglobine and its derivatives, by M. C.Husson.— On the probable origin of the two hailstorms observed on July 7 and 8, in some parts of Switzerland and the South of France, by M. D. Colladon.—On the non-regeneration of the crystalline lens in man and in rabbits, by M. J. Gayat.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 12, 468 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012468a0
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