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Description of a tail-less Deer ; native of the Snowy Moun- 

 tains of Nepaul, and Plains of Muktinauth, about five weeks 

 journey ft-om the VaUey of Nepaul in a north-west direction. 



This deer is mentioned as perhaps not different from Cervus 

 Pygargus of Pallas. It was presented by the Court of Kat- 

 mandoo, and is now in the Menagerie of the Marquis of Hast- 

 ings. 



Also, part of an account by Dr. Wm. Jack, F.L.S. of the 

 LaJisium and some other genera of Malayan plants : Those 

 described were, Lansium domesticum (Decandria Monogynia 

 — Meliaceaeof Jussieu); and Hedycarpiis Malayanus. 



ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



At a Meeting of this Society, January 10, 1823, the follow- 

 ing papers were read : On some new Tables for determining 

 the Time, by means of Altitudes taken near the prime Verti- 

 cal; by Francis Baily, Esq. F.R.S. L.S. &c. 



The object of this paper is by means of certain tables to 

 facilitate the determination of time, the most important requi- 

 site to every practical observer. 



By those who at any time may not have access to a transit, 

 observations of the altitudes of stars in or near the prime ver- 

 tical may be employed with success, and the instructions and 

 tables, which are given in this paper, will greatly diminish 

 the labour of computing the results. 



A Letter from J. F. W. FIerschel,Esq. to C. Babbage, 

 Esq. Secretary of the Society, was read, containing a me- 

 thod of computing an occultation of a fixed star. Tlie pro- 

 cess here explained differs from that of Dr. Young, which 

 in point of arithmetical brevity is superior. It has, however, 

 the advantage of being more readily reduced to algebraical for- 

 mulae — a circumstance of some importance, since any person 

 conversant with algebra can never be at a loss in the practical 

 application of well-constructed formulae. 



An Account of some Trigonometrical Measurements taken 

 in the Alps, and conducted by means of Gunpowder Signals. 

 Communicated by Professor Pictet of Geneva. 



On the Corrections of the Place of Juno, as given in 

 Mr. Groombridge's Ephemeris of that Planet for the present 

 Month, by which it appeared that the M. should be —7" and 

 the North Declination, + \'\. By Stephen Groombridge, 

 Esq. F.11.S. 



This was the last meeting of the Society before its anniver- 

 sary, which takes place on the Hth of February. 



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