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Those of Mercury, Venus, and Mars, made by M. La- 
Jande, my nephew, will immediately follow. M. Delambre 
revises the tables of the satellites ; and we are about to have 
a new and complete collection of astronomical tables, to be 
published by the board of longitude. 
We have received the Memoirs of Berlin for 1862, which 
contain some observations of M. Bode, and calculations 
upon the planets of Piazzi and Olbers. 
M. Bouvard has continued at the observatory his course 
of observations with excellent instruments, and they will 
appear in the Connoissance des Temps for 1808 ; which will 
be printed in the form of the Gregorian Calendar, accord- 
ing to the senatus consultum of the 9th of September, sup- 
pressing the republican calendar, and which is printed m 
our small Annuary. 
In the bulletins of the academy of Montpelier there are 
some observations of M. Poitevin and of M. de Flauger- 
gues. 
M. Vidal, director of the observatory of Toulouse, fis 
sent us a large collection of observations which he made in 
1804, and which evince the zeal of this excellent astrono- 
mer. . } : 
The Ephemerides of Vienna for the year 1806, contain a 
great many longitudes determined by eclipses, in continua 
tion of the great work of M. Triesnecker; a memoir of 
M. Burg, to prove that it is necessary to increase Bradley’s 
refractions ; observations made at Vienna, Buda, Prague, 
Cremsmunster, Carlsbourg or Alba Carolina, Naples, Pa- 
lermo, Ratisbon, Amsterdam, Gotha, Milan, Munich, and 
Brunn, and to the south of Olmutz. 
The Ephemerides of M. Bode for 1808, also contain se- 
veral observations made at Berlin, Vienna, Petersburgh, 
Bremen, Breslaw, Prague, Vilna, Cremsmunster, Palermo, 
Upsal, Huth, and Danzig ; and computations of the three 
new planets. This volume, as well as the preceding ones, 
shows how important it is for astronomers to be acquaint- 
ed with the German language. I see with pleasure, that 
M. Bode approves of the name of equatude, which I substi- 
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