Astronomij in Germani/, for 1818. 95 



des Tern has 47' and 3\35' : these differences rather exceeding 

 the hmits of inaccuracy assigned by the author to his formula. 



VIII. Geocentric Places of Pallas, hj Dirksen. 



Up to June, 1820. The next opposition will 1820, Jan. 6, 

 20" . 16' .41", mean time of Gottingen; longitude 106° . 0'.16',2,' 

 geocentric latitude 54° . 28' . 33',2 S. 



IX. Extracts of Letters from the Chevalier Burg. 



Observations of the oppositions of the Georgian planet, and 

 of Jupiter; a calculation of the eclipse of 1820, for Vienna and 

 Gratz, agreeing within two or three minutes only with Littrow's 

 table. The second letter is dated 5th Feb. 1819, and relates to 

 some comets, and to an opposition of Vesta, differing from 

 Daussy's tables only 23" in heliocentric longitude, and 18' in 

 latitude ; there are also some oppositions of the other planets. 



X. Extract of a Letter from Professor Schnnacher. 

 Relating to Vesta, and to some geographical observations. 



S. B. L. 



Akt. VII. Ou the Mammoth, or Fossil EkphmU, found in 

 the Ice, at the Month of the River Lena, in Siberia. From 

 the Fifth Volume of the Memoirs of the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences of St. Petersburg. 



[The following pages are translated and abridged from a paper by Dr 

 Tilcsius in tbe Memoirs of the Petersburg Academy, and U.e figure of 

 tl.c skeleton is faithfully copied, but of a reduced size, from the lar- 

 plate uhicb accompanies it. ^~ 



Tl,c term " Mammoth, or Fossil Elephant" has been made use of with 

 a view to correct a common mistake in the application of the word 

 Mammoth, which is in Enfrland frequently given to the Mastodon 

 ofCuv.er, the animal of which the remains are chiefly found on the 

 banks of the Ohio and in other parts of America. The Siberians have 

 long applied the name of" Mannnoih' i„ the elephant whose hones are 



