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PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Mr. Bond also presented the following 



Observations on Lassell's Satellite of Neptune, 



1847 Made at Cambridge Observatory. 



Oct. 5i5th,7'''45'n- Satellite is south, preceding the primary, pos. 40°, dist. 15".4. 

 " 27th, 7h- 30™- Satellite is north, following the primary, pos. 61° 30', dist. 13".7; 



mean of six observations, using the powers 300 and 1000. 

 " 28th, 7''- 45'"- Satellite is north, following the primary, pos. 43° 15', dist. ]5".0, 

 being the mean of nine determinations ; powers 400 and 1000. 

 Nov. 2d, 7^- IS™- Satellite is north, following, pos. 55° 50', dist. 14".0. Powers 400 

 and 1000. 

 " The above were taken with the illuminated wires of the mi- 

 crometer of the great refractor. The angles of position are reckoned 

 from the parallel of declination." 



The President gave some account of the mountain ranges 

 of North America, illustrated by Bauerkeller's embossed map ; 

 also of the different passes through which a canal has been 

 thought practicable from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and 

 of the difficulties which at present render improbable the ex- 

 ecution of any such work. 



Dr. Bigelow gave also an account of the past and present 

 nomenclature of Pharmacology in Great Britain and in this 

 country, by which it appeared that the practice of using a 

 single word, whenever it is practicable, for the name of each 

 substance derived from the vegetable kingdom, was first intro- 

 duced in the American Pharmacopoeia of 1820, — and that 

 this simple form of nomenclature has been since adopted, 

 with few changes, by the Royal Colleges of Physicians in 

 London and Edinburgh, instead of the more complex names 

 formerly employed by them. 



Three hundredth Meeting. 

 November 10, 1847. — Quarterly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Captain William H. Smyth, R. N., President of the Royal 

 Astronomical Society, London, was chosen a Foreign Honor- 

 ary Member of the Academy. 



