316 Astronomy. — New Comet. 



To Robert Clayton, of Nelson-street, in the county of Dubim, 

 artist, for his method of depositing or inserting certain metals o> 

 a mixture of metals in wood, ivory, bone, horn, paper, and pot- 

 tery ware, whereby the old and tedious process of iuiuving uiav 

 be superseded, and the same eflFects be permanently produced iu 

 a shorter time and at a less expense than by any other process 

 now in use. — 16th April. — 6 months. 



NEW COMET. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 

 The slow motion in declination, and that nearly perpendicular, 

 and descending toward the Ecliptic, ought apparently to have 

 made the new comet very easily discernible. I thought that I. 

 saw it on the 20th ; but very repeated efforts to find it sivice in 

 the absence of the moon, and at a very late hour^ have been ali 



UDSUCCeS-iilll, 



I thought at first there was some mistake in stating the Peri- 

 lielion in orbita to be 287°; but on investigation, I found the 

 number right. And this would place the descending node about 

 306° R.A. and give a striking resemblance to the long-e.xpected 

 comet cf 1661. C. L. 



Errata in Mr. Capel Lofft's paper in our last number. Page 



204, line 3, read revolution : ibid, line 21, read for W, Hume's 

 —Mr. HIGGINS : ibid, line 26, for iron read gaseous. Page 



205, line II, for equiunial read equicrural : ibid, line \9, for 

 plane rear/ place; ibid, line 20, for rota read rate: ibid, line 36, 

 read Betelguesn and Procyon : ibid, line 40, read with the ne- 

 bulae at all near it, wddele the " not." 



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