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PARIS Academy of Sciences, September 9.—M. Fizeau, president, in the chair.—The following papers were read:—On some phenomena of a vaso-motor action observed in the course of researches on the physiology of the excito-secretive nerves, by M. A. Vulpian.—On some new effects produced by the telephone, by M. du Moncel.—On the new palæozoic group of Dolerophylleæ, by M. G. de Saporta.—On a new gyroscopic apparatus, by M. Gruey.—On the accumulation of magnetism on the summit of hemispheric poles, by M. L. Romain.—On the waves of the high sea, by M. Ch. Antoine.—Some notes, by MM. Vasseur, Lassalle, and Cameron, regarding aerial navigation.—An additional paper by M. Giraud respecting the treatment of cholera.—A note by M. F. Bettelhauser respecting the various means employed for the destruction of phylloxera.—Prof. Asa Gray, who has been nominated a correspondent of the Botanical Section, presented the first part of his “Synoptic Flora of North America.”—Rectification of the position previously assigned to the new planet discovered during the eclipse of the sun on July 29, by Prof. J. Watson, and note on the observation of a second star seen under the same circumstances.—On a new method to decompose numbers into square binary sums and its application to indetermined analysis, by M. E. de Jonquieres.—On the depression which, at the surface of a horizontal elastic and isotropous ground, is produced by a weight deposited thereon, and on the distribution of this weight between its various points of support, by M. J. Boussinesq.—On the variations of intensity which take place in a current if the pressure between the two contacts, which complete the circuit is modified, by M. Treve.—On the application of the telephone to the determination of the magnetic meridian, by M. H. de Parville.—On the constitution of the inactive glucose of crude cane sugar and molasses, by M. U. Gayon.—Comparison between the Balaena (Macleayius) australiensis, of the Paris Museum, and the Balaena biscayensis, of Naples University, by M. Fr. Gasco.—On the reproduction of the Hydra, by M. Korotneff.—On the comparative structure of Lepidodindron and Sigillaria, by M. B. Renault.
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SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES . Nature 18, 560 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018560b0
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