9-J Solar Eclipse.— -Mr. Chenevix. — Fossil Tooth. 



publish, for the most part, inaccurate accounts of failures, 

 without due regard to the laws of evidence. Neither party 

 seems to be aware that vaccination may leave one out of a 

 thousand still liable to the small-pox, and yet finally be ren- 

 dered to effect the grand objects in view, viz. the extermina- 

 tion of the small-pox, by substituting an affection that in not 

 one case of a hundred is worth calling a disease, and pro- 

 duces death scarcely once in ten thousand cases ; for small- 

 pox inoculation, which produces a severe disease in one case 

 of 25, and death in one of 150 or 200 inoculated persons. 



XVII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 

 solar eclipse. 



VV e have received an account of two observations of the 

 eclipse which took place on the 16th of June. One of the 

 observers, situated in long. ll",5 east of the royal observa- 

 tory, saw the beginning at 4 h 38 m 49 s M. T. The other, 

 situated in about long. ] // ,0 west, observed the end at 

 5 h 57 m 54 s M. T. The beginning of the eclipse took place 

 about 2 m 27 s later than the tables gave it. The end agrees 

 to within about 6" of the calculated time. 



MR. CHENEVIX. 



We are happy to inform our readers that the statement 

 of the death of Mr. Chenevix, the celebrated chemist, con- 

 tained in a foreign journal, is altogether erroneous, as we 

 are well assured that the last accounts from Constantinople 

 announced him to have arrived safe and well in that city. 



FOSSIL TOOTH. 



At Sir Joseph Banks's converzatione on the 22d of June, 

 a very curious and perfect fossil tooth, belonging to an ele- 

 phant, or to some other huge animal of a former period, was 

 exhibited. It is twelve inches long, near six broad, and of a 

 proportionate thickness. This surprising tooth seems to 

 have belonged to a voung animal, as less than one-third of 



its. 



