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asteroids, except Flora, making its revolution in about 

 1269 days. 



On the 22d of August, 1852, Mr. Hind discovered 

 another planet not far from the ecliptic in the constella- 

 tion Aquarius. It appeared like a star of the ninth 

 magnitude, and exhibited the same yellowish color which 

 was remarked about Melpomene. Mr. Hind having been 

 requested by Mr. Bishop to find a name for this planet, 

 proposed to call it For tun a. . 



The next planet was independently discovered by Pro- 

 fessor de Gasparis on September 19th, and by M. Cha- 

 cornac, assistant to M. Yalz, at Marseilles, on the 20th of 

 the same month. M. Chacornac was occupied in com- 

 pleting some ecliptic charts of the stars according to a 

 plan adopted by Professor Yalz in 1847, and on the night 

 of September 10, he remarked a star of the ninth mag- 

 nitude in a position where none had been seen before. 

 M. Yalz proposed the name Massilia for this object, in 

 which Professor Gasparis, who had a prior claim to the 

 discovery, appears to have concurred. The inclination 

 of its orbit to the ecliptic is less than that of any other 

 known planet, Uranus not excepted. 



On the 15th of November, 1852, another planet was 

 discovered, at Paris, by M. Hermann Goldschmidt, an 

 historical painter, residing in that city. M. Arago 

 proposed to call it Lutetia. It resembled a star of the 

 ainth or tenth magnitude. 



On the night following the last discovery, November 

 L6th, Mr. Hind, of London, detected a new planet with 



