APPENDIX. 



Report on the Discovery and Name of an Eighth Satellite of Saturn. 



{Read November 8, 1848.) 



The Committee to whom was referred the subject of the name 

 proper to be given to the eighth satellite of Saturn, recently 

 discovered at the Observatory in Cambridge, have attended to 

 that duty, and beg leave to submit the following report: — 



This important discovery, which was made by the Messrs. Bond, 

 at the Observatory in Cambridge, on the 16th of September, was 

 first announced to the public in a letter of the 25th instant, 

 addressed to the President of the University, which was published 

 on the 27th instant in the Boston Daily Advertiser. Copies of 

 this letter were transmitted to London, Altona, and Paris, by the 

 steamer of the 27th October. 



The great interest attaching to this discovery has induced the 

 committee to submit to the Academy, as a part of their report, the 

 following detailed account, with which they have been kindly 

 furnished by Mr. Bond. 



On the evening of the 15th September, in observing Saturn 

 and his satellites, an object was noticed by Mr. G. P. Bond, which 

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