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Abstract

THE French Association for the Advancement of Science meets this year at La Rochelle, on the 24th in t., for its eleventh session. M. Janssen is the President elect. Two lectures are to be delivered, one by M. Bouquet de la Grye, on the deep water harbour of La Rochelle; the other by M. Hospitaller, on the electric light. There will be excursions to the places where oysters and mussels are cultivated. Deep-sea dredging will take place on board the Ardisnade, under the direction of Prof. Giard, of Lille. A reduction of 50 per cent. will be granted on the French railways to the members of the Association. Among foreign savants expected to attend the meeting are Prof. Hennessy of Dublin, Prof. van Beneden of Louvain, with several other Belgians, Prof. Baehr of Delft, and two other Dutch savants, Signor Denza, of Moncalieri Observatory, and two other Italians, Chevalier di Silva, Royal Architect, from Lisbon, Prof. Vittanova of Madrid, and M. de Loriol of Geneva. Among the sub jects of papers we note briefly the following:—The Channel Tunnel; American glaciers; transformation of work into heat, and reciprocally; marbles of Italian quarries; employment of portable railways in the war in Tunis; geodetic works in Italy; the salubrity of collective dwellings; aërodynamics and solar heat; the topoveloce; a new gyroscopic box; a geometrical generation of Fraunhofer's lines; theory of vowels; isotherms on mountains; registering capillary electrometer; new pressure-anemograph; best coloured signals for beacons, &c.; sulphurous acid in Lille atmosphere; aërial navigation; photometry for light of different colours; severe winters; distribution of the atmosphere in the two hemispheres; ammoniacal fermentation; determination of salicylic acid in alimentary substances; action of oxalic acid on polyatomic alcohols; formation of alkaloids in protoplasm; bases of the quinoleic series; electro:therapeutic treatment of vomiting; double consciousness; teas of commerce; anæsthesia in croup; anthropology of evolution; the cause of goitre; intestinal parasites of oysters; thermal waters in the Mediterranean basin; physiology of the nervous system; ocular hygiene; yellow fever; the Verbenaceæ; mints of France; European clover; funeral furniture of a dolmen; a palaeolithic and neolithic station (see the Revue Scientifique, July 27 and August 5).