«CIElfTlFlC NEWS* 30l 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Extract of a Letter from Mr, Bode, Jjironomer Royal at Berlin, i 



to Mr. A. F. Thoelden. Dated the 23d of October, 1 804. j 



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A HEREWITH tranfmit to you fome of my own obferva- New planet 

 tions of the new dilcovered third planet, (which is to be called J""^' 

 JunoJ made at our Obfervatory. 



I alfo inform you, that an anonymous admirer of aftronomy Aftronomical 

 of Berlin, has depofited with me the fum of 20 Frederics d'or, P"'^* 

 for any important difcovery, treatife, or fatisfadory folution of 

 any difficult problem, of, or relating to, aftronomy, to be fent 

 to me between this and the end of Auguft, 1805. (The con- 

 currents are requefted to write their diflertations either in 

 French, or in German, affixing a motto to each, with a fealed 

 note containing their name and addrefs}. After the expiration 

 of the above-mentioned period I am to confult with my aflro- 

 nomical friends refpedling the merits of the papers fent, and to 

 adjudge the premium accordingly, on condition, however, 

 that I may be at liberty to make ufe of fuch papers, addrefled 

 to me, as I think proper to infert into my aft ronomical journals. 



Signed, J. E. BODE. 



N, B, Any aftronomical gentleman who intends to become . 

 a competitor, may fend his paper to me, and I will forward it 

 to Mr, Bode without any expence. 



A. F. THOELDEN. 

 No, 10, St, Alhan's Street, Pall-Mall, 

 Nov. 3d, 1804. 



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