L G ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



The Annah of the Moscow Observatory (Vol. III., Part I.) 

 contains an important paper by Bredichin on the anomalous 

 forms in the development of the tails of comets, with especial 

 reference to comet II. 1802, and a reduction by Gromadski 

 of meridian observations of fundamental stars by Bredichin 

 and Khandricoff. The results of the first of these papers 

 have been published in the AstronomiscJie Naehrichten. 



Duner publishes in the Proceedings of the Stockholm 

 Academy, 187G, No. 1, a paper on Coggia's comet of 1874, 

 accompauied by nine drawings. 



SPECTROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS. 



No publication in regard to photographic spectra of stars 

 lias been made by either Dr. Huggins or Dr. Draper since the 

 first announcement of their preliminary results. It is under- 

 stood that the observation of the spectra of fixed stars will be 

 a principal work of the new observatory of Princeton College. 



Dr. Konkoly, of the O'Gyalla Observatory, in Hungary, has 

 recently communicated the result of his observations on the 

 spectra of 160 fixed stars to the Hungarian Academy of 

 Sciences. The bright bands in the spectrum ofJJeta Lyra?,, 

 found by Vogel in 1871, and previously by Secchi, are now 

 wanting. 



Secchi publishes a list of 444 colored stars from Schjel- 

 lerup's list and his own observations, with notes on their 

 spectra, etc. It is noteworthy (and little known) that Sir 

 William Ilerschel recognized the essential differences of the 

 first three types of Secchi so early as 1 798. (See Phil. IWins., 

 1814, page 2G4). 



The change of spectrum ofJYbva Ci/gni is noticed in an- 

 other place. 



ZODIACAL LIGHT. 



From information received from Mr. II. C. Lewis, of Ger- 

 mantown, Ave learn that he continues to see the zodiacal 

 light from horizon to horizon, and also that the veritable 

 Gegenschein, as an oval spot of light in the zodiacal light, 

 appears distinctly, and. from month to month shifts its place 

 in tin 1 stars so as to keep about opposite the sun. 



In the Comptes Rendus for July 2, Hugo has a note on a 

 luminous column vertically extended above the moon, and 

 some lour degrees in length; and Trouvelot has recently 



