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Austral* SteUiferum -which now fall between 155 and 1G5 

 X. P. I)., and some additional ones in the same zone. La- 

 caille'a stars between 145 and 155 N. P. D. were similarly 

 observed in 1875, and those between 135 and 145 in 187G. 

 We shall soon, therefore, have accurate places of all La- 

 caille's stars, especially as Dr. C. Powalky, of Washington, 

 lias reduced all of Lacaille's observations (about 400 in 

 number) taken with the altitude instruments both at the 

 Cape of Good Hope and at Paris. By introducing new 

 values of the latitude, refraction, and corrections for the 

 division errors of the instruments, lie has been able to brinsf 

 excellent agreement between the Paris and Cape observa- 

 tions with both sextant and sector. The results appear to 

 be comparable in precision with Bradley's observations. 

 The epoch chosen is 1750.0. 



"The Results of Observations of Shooting-Stars, from 1833 

 to 1875," by the late Dr. Heis, of Miinster, has just been pub- 

 lished. It comprises Dr. Heis's own observations for forty- 

 three years at the observatory of which he was director. 

 According to Nature, it gives the times of occurrence and 

 the points of first and last appearance of 13,000 meteors, 

 followed by a partial discussion of the results and by a 

 catalogue of radiant points. 



ASTRONOMICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The St. Petersburg Academy has published a "Tableau 

 general methodique et alphabetique des Matieres contenues 

 dans les Publications de l'Academic Imperiale des Sciences, 

 depuis sa Fondation." The first part, "Publications en 

 Langues etrangeres," 489 pp., 8vo, was printed in 1872, 

 and has just reached England. It will be of immense ser- 

 vice as a key to these important Transactions. 



The continuation of the Royal Society's Catalogue of Sci- 

 entific Papers (18G4-73) is nearly ready for distribution. It 

 contains over 95,000 titles, and will be printed in two vol- 

 umes, uniform with the former volumes. Vol. VII. contains 

 the initials A-II, Vol. VIII. II-Z. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium has recently 

 published an important bibliographical work, which gives a 

 complete list of the members, etc., of the Academy, and a 

 list of the works of each, which is complete so far as its own 



