Ixxii Votes. 
2. Review of a “ Report of the Committee [of Congress] to whom was refer- 
red, on the 25th of January, 1810, the Memorial of William Lambert, 
accompanied with sundry Papers relating to the Establishment of a 
First Meridian for the United States, at the permanent Seat of their 
Goyernment.’’ Published in the Monthly Anthology, Vol. ix. p. 245. 
3. Defence of the Review of Mr. Lambert’s Memorial. Monthly Anthology, 
Vol. x. p. 40. 
4. Review of Olbers’s Treatise on the most easy and convenient Method of 
Computing the Path of a Comet ; and Gauss’s Theoria Motus Corpo- 
rum Celestium in Sectionibus Conicis Solem ambientium, etc. (con- 
taining a brief account of the progress of astronomy in Germany. 
Published in the North American Review, Vol. x. p. 260.) 
. Letter to Baron Zach; published in his Correspondance Astronomique, 
Vol. x. p. 223, for the year 1824. 
6. Review of particular Works of Bessel, Burckhardt, Bouvard, Delambre, 
or 
Lindenau, and La Place, (comprising a view of Modern Astronomy, 
and an account of the most distinguished writers on the subject. 
Published in the North American Review, Vol. xx. p. 309.) 
To these Reviews may be added a great number of articles published in 
the Mathematical Diary, a quarterly journal. I am informed, that he solved 
every question that was proposed in that journal ; and his solutions, part of 
which only were published, were, as we should expect, distinguished for their 
elegance, simplicity, and precision. 
3c=> To the Memoirs by Dr. Bowditch, mentioned in the text, should be 
added the following, which were accidentally omitted : 
On the Eclipse of the Sun of September 17th, 1811; with the Longitudes of 
several Places in this Country, deduced from Eclipses and Transits 
published in the Transactions of different learned Societies. (Mem. 
Amer. Acad. Vol. iii. p. 255.) 
Estimate of the Height of the White Hills, in New Hampshire. (Mem. Amer. 
Acad. Vol. iii, p. 326.) 
On the Occultation of Spica by the Moon, observed at Salem, February 5th, 
1820: (Mem. Amer. Acad. Vol. iv. p. 306.) 
NOTE I. p. xliv. 
The writer of the article in the Quarterly Review, here quoted, speaks of 
Mrs. Somerville as an English lady. In a subsequent volume of that journal, 
