OF AN EIGHTH SATELLITE OF SATURN. 289 



to, and Mr. Bond has expressed a decided preference for it, your 

 committee strongly recommend it as the name of the new satellite. 

 The committee are happy to have it in their power to state to 

 the Academy, that Mr. Bond is preparing a memoir, to be submitted 

 to the Academy at a future day, containing in full the result of the 

 observations of Saturn, his rings, and satellites, made at the Ob- 

 servatory in Cambridge during the past year. 



Your committee were further instructed to inquire into the prac- 

 ticability of adopting an appropriate and convenient notation for 

 the satellites of Saturn ; the want of which is sensibly felt in all 

 discussions of the theory of the Saturnian system. The commit- 

 tee have given some consideration to this subject, but are not pre- 

 pared to submit any report upon it to the Academy. It is the 

 intention of one of the members of the committee, (Professor 

 Peirce,) to engage in a full investigation of the satellites of Saturn, 

 in connection with which this point will receive due consideration. 

 All which is respectfully submitted. 

 For the Committee, 



EDWARD EVERETT, Chairman. 

 Cambridge, Sth November, 1848. 



Note. — The following is the letter of Mr. Bond, referred to on 

 page 275. 



" Observatory, Cambridge, September 25th, 1848. 

 "Dear Sir, — On the evening of the 16th of this month, a 

 small star was noticed, situated nearly in the plane of Saturn's ring, 

 and between the satellites Titan and lapetus. It was regarded at 

 the time as accidental. It was, however, recorded, with an esti- 

 mated position in regard to Saturn. 



