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tof merchandize by water from Hayre 
ie aris, and the cost is twenty-five shil- 
lings per ton; or four days by waggon, 
when. the charge is five pounds; between 
these two extremes there are many means, 
when the cost is in the inverse ratio of the 
speed. A company has now offered to 
construct a double rail road, and to deliver 
goods at Paris in sixty hours from Havre, at 
birt price of £1. 5s, 8d., or at Havre from 
Paris in the same time for 18s. Id. It is 
as yet uncertain whether or not this scheme 
‘will be put in execution.—Rev. Encyc. 
American Hogs. — Rattle-snakes and 
copper-headed snakes were very abundant 
in the woods of Ohio at the first settlement 
of the country: but since hogs have been 
suffered to run in the woods, they have 
nearly destroyed the race of snakes. It is 
said that the bite of a poisonous snake does 
no injury toahog. If this be the fact, I 
know not how to account for it, unless it 
be that the great quantity of fat with which 
the cellular membrane is loaded prevents 
its absorption into the system, or acts as an 
antidote to the poison in the same manner 
that dried oil does. It is certain that hogs 
are fond of this kind of food, and eat it 
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whenever they can catch it.—Szliman’s 
Journ, 
Astronomy.—For the benefit of all prac- 
tical astronomers, we publish an index to 
Harding’s Celestial Atlas : 
Andromeda, 10, 18, 19, 26. Globus Fy aed 8, 9. 
Apparatus C hemicus, 1, 2. Hercules, 16, 24 25. 
Sculptoris, 1, 9. Hydra, 4. 
Aquarius, 8, 9, 17, 18. Leo, 5, 13, 14, 22. 
Aquila et Antinous, 8, 17. ——Minor, 13, 14, 22. 
Navis, 3, 4. Lepus, 2, 3. 
Aries, 10, 11, 19. Libra, 6, 15. 
Auriga, 12, 20, 21. Lynx, 21, 22. 
Bootes, 15, 23, 24. Lyra, 16. 
Cela Sculptoris, 2. Machina Electrica 1. 
Camelopardalus, 18, 20, 21. Monocerus, 3, 4, 12. 
Cancer, 13, 21, 22. Officina Typographica, 4. 
Canes Venatici, 15, 23. Ophiuchus, 7. 7, 16. 
Canis Major, 3. Orion, 2, 3, 11, 12. 
Minor, 12. ~ Pegasus, 17, 18, 26. 
Capricornus, 8, 9. Perseus, 19, 20. 
Cassiopea, 19, 26. Pisces, 9, 10, 18, 19. 
Cauda Hydre, 5, 6. Notius, 9. 
Centaurus, 6. Pyxis Nautica, 4. 
Cepheus, 19, 25, 26. Quadrans Muralis, 23, 24. 
Cetus, 1, 2,9, 10, 11. Sagittarius, 7, 3. 
Columba, 3. Scorpio, 6, 7. 
Coma Berenices, 14. 23. Scutum Sobieski, 7. 
Corona Borealis, 15, 24. iiss * ew 13. 
Corvus, 3, hiuchi, 7, 15, 16. 
Crater, 5. Becta. rani, 4, 13. 
Cycnus, 17, 18, 25, 26. Taurus, 11, 12. 
Delphinus, 17. Poniatowsky, 16. 
Draco, 23, 24, 25. Ursa Major, 14, 21, 22, 23. 
Eridanus, 2, 11. Virgo. 5, 6, 14, 15. 
Felis, 4. Vulpecula et Anser, 17. 
Gemini, 12, 21. Vultur, 17, 24, 25. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
DOMESTIC. 
Linnean Society.—June 6. A paper, by 
the Rey. Lansdowne Guilding, F.L.s., on 
a new genus of insects named Oiketicus, 
was read; also a paper by the Secretary, 
J. E. Bicheno, Esq., on Methods and Sys- 
tems in Natural History. 
June 20. The following papers were 
read: Concise Notice of a Species of Ur- 
sus, from Nipal, a skin of which has been 
presented to the Linnean Society by 
H. T. Colebrooke, Esq. ; by T. Hors- 
field, Mp. F.t.s. Description of a new 
British Freshwater Helix, by the Rev. Re- 
vett Sheppard, m.a. F.L.s. Of the term 
Ojistros, or Oestron, of the ancients, and of 
the real insect intended by them in this 
expression ; by B. Clark, r.u.s. &e. &c. 
Astronomival Society of London.— 
May 12. A paper, by the Astronomer 
Royal, was read, containing an explanation 
of the method of observing with the two 
mural circles, as practised at present at the 
Royal Observatory; also extracts from 
three letters from M. Gambort, Director of 
the Observatory of Marseilles, to James 
South, Esq., respecting the discovery and 
elements of the orbit of a comet, supposed 
to be the same with that or those of 1772 
and 1805. The reading of Mr. Herscheil’s 
paper on double stars was continued. 
‘Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain 
and Ireland:—June 3. Donations were 
presented from M.M. E. Burnouf and 
ih apd Capt. Melville Grindlay, Lieut.- 
. 
col. W. Francklin, and Maj.gen. Hard- 
wicke. 
A paper by Sir A. Johnston on the his- 
tory of the Hindu Princes of Madura was 
read. 
June 17. The last meeting for the sea- 
son was held this day. The donations 
were received from the Horticultural So- 
ciety: Lieut.col. Farquhar, Lieut.col. 
Coomb, H. T. Colebrooke, Esq., Lieut.- 
col. Warren, Col. M. Wilks, Capt. Duff, 
Mrs. Williams, and Geo. Paterson, Esq. 
Lieut.colonel Lushington, Lieut.colonel 
Francklin, and Captain G. Everest were 
elected members of the society. 
Lieut.colonel Farquhar communicated 
abstract registers of the thermometer and 
barometer at Singapore, for 1822 and 1823 ; 
andalso an abstract register of the thermo- 
meter at Malacca, for 1809. 
A translation of some extracts from the 
Akhlake e Naseri, by Col. Wilkie, was 
read. This work is a treatise on the know- 
ledge of the human soul, to which the atten- 
tion of the translator was drawn, from the 
similarity of the arguments lately used by 
some English divines, in answer to some 
physiological works on materialism. 
The Society’s meetings were then ad- 
journed to Noy. 4th. 
FOREIGN. 
Marseilles. —The Royal Academy of 
Sciences, May 7 The Abbé: Boyer, 
of the Order of Malta, was shire ina 
