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SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS,


SELECTED FROM


THE TRANSACTIONS OF


FOREIGN ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE
AND LEARNED SOCIETIES,


AND FROM


FOREIGN JOURNALS.



EDITED BY

RICHARD TAYLOR, F.S.A.,

FELLOW OF THE LINNÆAN, GEOLOGICAL, ASTRONOMICAL, ASIATIC, STATISTICAL,
AND GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON;
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MOSCOW.

UNDER SECRETARY OF THE LINNÆAN SOCIETY.



VOL. I.



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RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.

SOLD BY LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN; BALDWIN AND CRADOCK; CADELL; RIDGWAY AND SONS; SHWERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; B. FELLOWES; S. HIGHLEY; WHITTAKER AND CO.; AND J. B. BAILLIÈRE, LONDON:—AND BY A. AND C. BLACK, AND THOMAS CLARK, EDINBURGH; SMITH AND SON, GLASGOW:—MILLIKEN AND SON, AND HODGES AND M'ARTHUR DUBLIN:—DOBSON, PHILADELPHIA:—AND GOODHUGH, NEW YORK.

1837.