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Observations made by Mr. C. Riimker, at Stargard, New South 

 Wales, on the Comet which appeared in July, 1824. 



Observation of an Eclipse of the Moon, taken at Chouringhy, 

 near Calcutta, in the Year 1798. By the late Col. R. H. Cole- 

 brooke. 



Observations of the Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites, taken at 

 Chouringhy, in the Years 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 

 1803. By the late Col. R. H. Colebrooke. 



Observations of the Eclipse"; of Jupiter's Satellites, taken at 

 Chouringhy, in the Years 1821, 1822, and iS23. By Captains 

 Hodgson and Herbert. 



Observation^ of the Occultations of the Pleiades by the Moon, in 

 July and October, 1821. By the Rev. W. Pearson. 



Report of the Council to the Fifth Annual General Meeting. 



List of Presents, 6)C. S)X. 



With an Appendix, On the Construction and Use of some new 

 Tables for determining the apparent Places of nearly 3000 prin- 

 cipal Fixed Stars. Drawn up by Francis Baily, Esq. 



It is with great pleasure we observe the rapidity with which 

 the continental naturalists describe and even figure their disco- 

 veries ; for in less than two years after the return of the travellers 

 sent to collect the subjects of natural history in the forests of 

 South America, by the King of Bavaria, Dr. Spix has been 

 enabled, by the excellent state of the continental museums, to 

 write monographs on the reptiles and birds which were found 

 in his travels. In the part of the reptiles (the snakes) he was cer- 

 tainly assisted by Dr. Wagler, a most enthusiastic erpetologist, 

 •who'is engaged on a history of this order of animals. 



The work is published in a size worthy of the royal auspices, 

 under which it is produced ; for although it is not quite so large 

 as the "large work on Egypt," the large paper copies are not much 

 inferior. The figures are lithographic, and do great credit to 

 the talent of the artist ; for the general accuracy of their outline 

 and the minuteness of their detail, and indeed as works of art, 

 thev merit some notice, as the part at present under consideration 

 presents in the three first plates two distinct kinds of lithography, 

 and a kind of mixture between the two. For the King of the 

 Vultures (^Cathartes Papa) is a specimen of the usual chalk-like 

 style of lithography ; while the Rat-eating Eagle (Aquila Urubi- 



