Celestial Phcmmcnafrom July 1. to Oct. 1. 1830. 18^ 



Ou the ICth of July, there will be an Occultation of Aldebaran by the 

 Moon: 



Immersion, 16. 11 46 /at 193» 



Emersion, 12 13 30 at.244 



The angle denotes the point of the Moon's limb where the phenomenon 

 will take place, reckoning from the vertex of the limb towards the right hand 

 round the circumference, as seen with a telescope which inverts. 



On the 2d and 3d of September there will be a total Eclipse of the Moon : 



D. H. / // 



The Eclipse begins, Sept. 2. 20 36 32 



Beginning of total darkness, 2134 26 



End of total darkness, 23 15 14 



End of the Eclipse, 3. 13 8 



Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 

 (Continued from preceding volume, p. 385.) 



1830, March 6.— Henry Witham, Esq. Vice-President, in 

 the chair.— The Secretary read a notice concerning the Hya-hya 

 or Milk-tree of Demerara, contained in a letter from James 

 Smith, Esq. to Professor Jameson. (See No. 16. of this Jour- 

 nal, p. 315. et seq.) After which the Rev. Dr David Scot, read 

 an essay on the question. Whether Domestic Poultry were known 

 among the ancient Jews 't. 



March 20.— Dr R. K. Greville, V. P. in the chair.— There 

 was read an essay on the origin of our Domestic Poultry, com- 

 municated by James Wilson, Esq. ; and specimens of several 

 kinds of the wild poultry were placed on the table. The Rev. 

 Dr Scot then read an essay, shewing that the Hyaena of natu- 

 ralists is most probably alluded to in three different passages of 

 the Sacred Writings, although this has been denied by critics. 



April 3. — Robert Jameson, Esq. Pres. in the chair. — 

 There was read by David Craigie, Esq. surgeon, an interesting 

 account of the internal structure of the Sturgeon, Acipenser 



