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dried specimen; in the recent state, the knetted appearance 
is not distinguishable: he has also drawn it with the palms 
turned nearly to the earth, instead of placing them with the 
thumbs to the ground and the palms presenting backwards. 
In the recent English translation of Baron Cuvier’s Régne 
Animal, Desmarest’s figure is copied, but is rendered vastly 
more incorrect and unnatural than it is in the original. 
Note.—In my Note on the genus Condylura recently pub- 
lished, it is stated that the Scalops has the integuments con- 
tinued over the cartilaginous tube leading to the internal ear. 
I lately had an opportunity of examining several fine speci- 
mens, and have found the very small meatus auditorius ex- 
ternus, which will admit a body of the size of a common pin. 
It is by no means easily discovered, and is situated about 
three-fourths of an inch behind the eye, nearly over the ante- 
rior part of the shoulder joint. 
XLIV. On the Opposition of the Minor Planets. By SvEPHEN 
GroomprincE, Esg. . BS. &c. &c. 
HAVING computed the apparent places. of these planets 
about the time of their respective oppositions in pre- — 
ceding years, from elements which required correction in the 
mean epoch of longitude on the orbit; particularly in Pallas, 
whose mean diurnal tropical motion had been assumed too 
great a quantity: I have now corrected their elements from 
the observations made at Greenwich in the last year; and the 
following Ephemeris will show their apparent places at mid- 
night for 1826, 
Dist. from 
Opposition. Anomaly. ©O=1 
Pallas... June 23d at 175 28'| 329°26'| 2-563 
Ceres... June 28th 23 59 311 16 1886 
Vesta... August 18th 15 20 | 256 35 | 1°291 
Juno ... November Ist 10 23 | 166 19 | 1°023 
Pallas will appear very faint, being so distant from the earth; 
but Vesta and Juno pene in the lower part of their orbits, will 
appear as stars of 6th and 7th magnitude. 
Blackheath, April 19, 1826, S. GROOMBRIDGE. 
Ephemeris 
