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PARIS. Academy of Sciences, August 27.—M. Ed. Perrier in the chair.—A. Lacroix: The composition and modes of alteration of the ophites of the Pyrenees.—G. Humbert: Some properties of binary indefinite quadratic forms.—H. Deslandres: Contribution to the supposed influence of the cannonade on the fall of rain. The opinion of M. C. Saint-Saens.—A. Laveran: The experimental inoculation of Leishmania tropica in apes: multiplication of the primary lesions by auto-inoculations in a Circopithecus mono,: Paul Sabatier and G. Gaudion: The various modes of decomposition of amines by catalysis: return to aniline and the substituted anilines. Examples are given of the various types of decomposition effected by metallic nickel, removal of hydrogen, separation of ammonia, and separation of aromatic amine.—F. Delhaye and Sluys: The formation of the Karoo in the western Congo.—MM. Lapicque and Legendre: The improvement of war bread by neutralisation of the ferments of the bran. An extraction of 85 per cent, of the wheat gives a flour containing such a proportion of bran that the bread made from it is unpleasant in taste and rapidly goes mouldy. The addition of a proportion of lime water in making the bread neutralises the acidity of the bran and gives a bread which has a better taste and keeps longer than bread made from the same flour without the addition of lime water.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 100, 40 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100040a0
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