Notices respecting New Books. 85 



is employed instead of pigeons dung, and culver or tlte dung 

 of fowls is in common use. The dunai; of graminivorous 

 quadrupeds enters only slowly into fermentation, and it is 

 not found efficacious in the process. 



XV. Notices respecting Neiv Books. 



Coimoissance des Terns, a V Usage des Astroiwines et des 

 Nai'igateurs poi/r I' An 13 de V Ere de la Rcpuhliqiie Frun- 

 ^oise ( 1 805) ; puldice par le Bureau des Longitudes u Paris. 

 De I Imprimerie de la Rcpublique. 



X HIS work was published for the first time in 1679. Pi- 

 card, one of the greatest astronomers of the 17th century, 

 and Lefebvre, edited the earlier volumes ; Lieutaud began 

 in 1702; Godin in 1730; Miraldi in 1735; Lalandc in 1760; 

 Jeaurat in 1776; Mechain in 1788: in consequence of the 

 absence of Mechain, Lalande resumed the editorship in 1 795, 

 and has continued ever since. 



This work is divided into two parts : the first compre-^ 

 hends the calendar/ that is to say, every thing relating to 

 observations both at sea and at land ; a catalogue of 600 

 principal stars for the 1st of January 1805, corrected by 

 Michel Lefrancais de Lalande. A geographical table of 

 longitudes and latitudes, corrected and enlarged by Buache, 

 Mechain, and Lalande, according to the last voyages and 

 observations which the French Board of Longitude receives 

 from different countries. The six eclipses which will take 

 place in the above year are carefully calculatedj as well as 

 eclipses of the stars, ° 



The second part of the volume contains observations 

 which render this work of more general utility to astrono- 

 Tners. Among the articles are a history and observations of 

 the new planets and the last comets ; a new catalogue of 

 the stars hitherto known, and amounting to 13000, ex- 

 tracted from tfre 50,000 stars observed b}«>LaIande tlie uncle 

 and nephew; memoirs or observations bv Voti Zach and 

 Ciccolini, Dclambre, Messier, Mechain, Vidal, Flauguer- 

 gues. Cousin, Lalande uncle and nephew, Burekhardt, 

 Nouct, Chabrol de Murol, Thulis, &e. Also the history 

 of Astronomy for the \oars 8 and 9, bein<r a continuation 

 of that published by /.alande for the prccecling years, since; 

 1 789. The most curious articles in this vohune are the ob- 

 lervations of the new planet diseovcred by Dr. Gibers, to 

 whuiu the National Institute has decreed the prize medal 

 fcunded by Lalande for the best annual work on a'-tronomy. 

 \^ 3 General 



