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becoming very rusty, I gave it a trial out of curiosity, and found it 

 prove one of the best razors of my set. 



I have also heard from a person much acquainted with the iron 

 trade, that occasionally a quantity has been manufactured, which 

 from some unknown cause turned out so bad as to be unsaleable, 

 butjwhich, after lying for a year or two in the stores, and becoming 

 quite rusty, has proved of excellent quality. 



I have also been informed by a person who deals in scythes, that 

 the hardest tempered are preferred, which are exposed for ten or 

 eleven months to all weather, upon the thatch of some building, 

 until they become rusty ;— after this they generally prove of ex- 

 cellent quality. B. B. 



ELECTION OF MR. R. BROWN AS A FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE 

 ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, on the 4th of March, 

 proceeded to the election of a Foreign Member, in the room of the 

 late anatomist Scarpa. 



The candidates were — 



Bessel and Jacobi of Kcenigsberg - Robert Brown and Michael 

 Faraday of London ; John Herschel of Slough ; Leopold de Buch 

 and Mitscherlich of Berlin j Meckel of Halle; Oersted of Copen- 

 hagen ; Plana of Turin. 



The number of members voting was 4<7. 



Robert Brown had 29 votes ; Bessel 7 ; Oersted 7 ; Mitscherlich 

 2; Meckel 1 ; Herschel l.—Le Temps, March 6, 1833. 



LUNAR OCCULTATIONS FOR JUNE. 



Occultations of fixed Stars by the Moon, visible at Greenwich in the 

 Year 1833. Computed by Thomas Maclear, Esq.; and circu- 

 lated by the Astronomical Society. 



Rising at emersion. 



