(320 History of Astrononuj for the Year 1S03. 



The latter gives a series of observations of the moon, which 

 may serve to verif\^ his tables. 



On the 24th of September 1803 we received the tenth 

 volume of the Transactions of the Italian Society, which 

 contains a valuable catalogue of the stars by M. Cagnoli ; 

 the opposition of Herschel in ] 79i by Slop and oppositions 

 of Mars by Chiminelli, at Padua, in 1790, 1792, and 1794. 



The Society of the Sciences at Warsaw has published a 

 volume of memoirs, in which there arc observations by 

 M. Sniadecki. 



On the 2'lth of October 1803 we received the Memoirs 

 of the Academy of Sciences at lierlin for 1 799 and 1800, 

 in which there are anecdotes for the History of the Mathe- 

 matics by Bernoulli; the pendulum which swings seconds 

 At Berlin, by M. Burja, 3 f. 2 in. 0*24 lines ; a memoir on 

 the problem of the precession of the equinoxes, by the for- 

 mulse of Lagrange, by M. John Trembley ; and astrono- 

 mical observations 1798 — 1800 by M. Bode. 



My small stereotype tables of logarithms, the most exact, 

 most convenient, and cheapest ever published, have been 

 again collated bv M. Bubna : no faults w ere found in them ; 

 and I announced that I would give a hundred francs for 

 each fault which might be discovered. 



Besides the interestmg journal of baron Von Zach, enti- 

 tled JSIonatlkke Correspotulcnz der llrde and Hnnmelkunde, 

 there is olie at Weimar entitUd Jlgcrneine Grographisc/te 

 Ep/iemcridcn, bv Gaspari and Ikrtuch : the number for Fe- 

 bruary J 803 contains an engraving of the celebrated astro- 

 nomer Joseph Nicholas de I'lsle, from a painting at Paris 

 in th6 possession of JNiessicr. 



We have received the Memoirs of the Academy of Pe- 

 tersburgh for 1793 and 1796, in which there are observa- 

 tions of Henry; memoirs bv Schubert on the theory of the 

 moon and on the transits of Mercury ; one by M. Kumou^ki 

 on the figure of the earth; two by M. Kraft on nautical 

 astronomy; and one by M. Inochodzof on the heights of 

 several places observed b\' the barometer. 



M.Novoziltzoff, president of the academy, has caused to 

 be placed in the observatory a beautiful transit instrument, 

 which he purchased from Ranisdc;n during his residence at 

 London. On the 25th of July he obtanicd an increase of 

 the funds of the academ\'. 



M. Wisniewski, of Warsaw, has been invited to Peters- 

 burgh on the recommendalion of professor Bode, whom he 

 assisted, lie arrived there oij the 1st of August, and began 



his 



