Miscellanies. 



417 



Wm 



the following elements have been computed by Prof. Benjamin Peirce. 





Perihelion Passage, 



Longitude of Ascending Node, . 



Inclination, . 



Longitude of the Perihelion, 



Perihelion distance, 



Motion, retrograde. 



Feb. 27.01 m. t. Cambridge. 



348° 33' 

 39 16 

 280 31 

 0.00872 



In order to verify the elements published by Mr. Walker, computations 

 were made here several days since, by Messrs. James Nooney and James 

 Hadley, from observations taken at Philadelphia previous to March 27, 

 and with the following result : 



Perihelion Passage, Feb. 27.203 m. t. Greenwich. 



356° 31' 



Longitude of Ascending Node, 



Inclination, 



Longitude of the Perihelion, 



Perihelion distance, . 



Motion, retrograde. 



36 37 



272 19 



0.0147 



The following Ephemeris of the Comet was computed from the ele- 

 ments last stated, for one hour after midnight, Greenwich mean time. 



(Geoc. Long, and Lat.) 



Days. 



April 7th, 



10th, 



13th, 

 15th, 

 18th, 

 21st, 



u 



u 



44 



44 



44 



Longitude. 



Latitude south. 



. 64° 10£' 



26° 33^ 



. 66°44£' 



26° 28f 



. 69° 03' 



26° 23' 



. 70° 32£' 



26° 19' 



. 72° 34f 



26° 12£' 



74° 29' 



26° 06' 





P. S. In a communication published in the Philadelphia Gazette, April 

 6, 1843, Messrs. Walker and Kendall remark, that the present comet 

 may perhaps be that of December, 1689, with the elements of which, ex- 

 cepting the inclination, this agrees tolerably well. 



New Haven, April 7, 1843. 



MISCELLANIES. 



DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



Fossil 



•Letters from Dr. G. A. Mantell, London, and Prof. 

 Chas. Daubeny, Oxford, Eng., to the senior Editor, mention the arrival 

 in England of the bones of a gigantic Struthoid bird, from New Zea- 

 land. The impress made by its feet would fully equal the largest 

 tracks observed by Dr. James Deane and Prof. Hitchcock, in the val- 



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