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PARIS. Academy of Sciences, August 2.—M. Ed. Perrier in the chair.—G. Bigourdan: The letters of L. Euler in the correspondence of J. N. Deslisle. H. Douville: The Orbitoids of Trinity Island. The distribution of these foraminifera is utilised for the classification of the Eocene strata at Trinity Island.—W. Kilian and Antonin Lanquine: The tectonic complications of the south-eastern portion of the., Basses-Alpes, near Castellane.—A. Leduc: The internal pressure of gases. The influence of temperature. Experimental data for sulphur dioxide at temperatures between 10° and -1000° C. are not in good accord with the formulae of Clausius and Sarrau. A new expression is proposed which presents the experimental results with greater exactness.—Sabra Stefanescu: The origin of some accidents of the crown of elephants' molars.—Louis Gentil: The analogies of the Moroccan Haut Atlas and Atlas of the Sahara.-R. Chudeau: Temperature in western and equatorial Africa.—V. Wallich: The suppression of suppuration in war wounds. The treatment, the very favourable results of which are described, is based on suppressing all causes of irritation at the level of the wound, together with the use of a stringently aseptic dressing. No antiseptics are used, draining tubes are removed as early as possible, and the compresses are moistened with a solution of common salt (one table-spoonful to the litre of water) sterilised by boiling for fifteen minutes before use.—V. Galippe: Parasitism in seeds and its importance in general biology. Experiments carried out on thirty-one species of plants showed that normal seeds can contain parasites. In ninety series of experiments seventy-eight results were positive. The parasite was usually a fungus, more rarely a yeast. The possibility of these parasites causing sudden mutations in plants is discussed.—Edmond Perrier: Remarks on the preceding paper. Armand Gautier; Remarks on the same note of V. Galippe.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 95, 693–694 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095693a0
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