May 26, 1910] 



NATURE 



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Bootis relinquebat 15' ad ortum [Porientem] stellam humeri 

 praeced. Bootis ; altera recta ducta per Cometam et genu 

 sequens Bootis transivit medio loco inter 2*™ et 3"" 

 HercuUs ; et parum forsam 20 minuta reliquerat rectam 

 per Arcturum et 8*™. . . . 



Thursday, August 31. Cometa in linea recta cum crure 

 praeced. Bootis et cubito sinistrae manus. Hinc nubes 

 Horizonti vicinae Cometam excepere. 



September^. Cailo undique sereno, culminante 286° A.R., 

 Cometa visus est in linea per Arcturum quje transivit inter 

 duas claras in Humeris Ursae Minoris propius vero minori 

 quam majori 5 intervalli ; item altera recta per genu 

 praeced. Bootis reliquit in antecedentiam i*™ caudae Ursie 

 Majoris 1° 00' circiter ; altera recta per genu sequens 

 Bootis quasi strinxit precedentem Coronae vel reliquit 

 forsam 15' ad orientem ; altera per caput Ophiuchi reliquit 

 lucidem colli Serpentis 15' ad clustrum ; denique linea 

 ducta per Lancem Boream transivit medio loco inter duas 

 sequentes in Tra{>ezlo Sagittarii. 



September 8. Jam statim occasurus. Cometa videbatur 



! observations. No record is made of an obser\-ation on 

 September 10; but in Flamsteed's " Historiae 

 ■ Caslestis " there is a note that it was seen through a 

 < gap in the clouds by Dr. Halley on this date, but 

 i could not be referred to stars, after which, on account 

 of its nearness to the sun and increasing south de- 

 clination, it was not seen again. 



A. S. Eddington, 

 (For the Astrotiomer Royal). 



SOME XEW ORSITHOLOGICAL WORKS.' 



(0 " 'X'HE Home-life of a Golden Eagle" is a valu- 

 -*• able contribution to the history' and 

 psychology of birds. It reminds one of the daily 

 entries in the hospital ward-schedule of an interest- 

 ing maternity case, by the medical ofhcer in charge, 

 to whom, unseen, have been revealed instincts of 



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Halley's original ob5er\-ations of his comet in 1682. The obser\-ations of September 4, i5i2, ...- . 



right-hand page contains notes on the paraboia. 



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occupy ihe left-hand page : the 



in linea recta ducta per Lancem Boream et medium cap. mother and child which would never be displaved 



Sagittarii ; itemque in altera per Arcturum, quae reliquit 

 in consequentiam praecedentem in manu Bootis 50' circiter ; 

 videbatur estimatione Libra 29° 40'. 



September 9. Eadem bora visus Cometa in linea recta 

 per Lancem Boream quae transivit grad. unum infra dex- 

 trum genu Ophiuchi ; itemque in altera per crus sequens 



during the ordinan.' visitation. Mr. Macpherson is to 

 be heartily congratulated on the completeness of his 

 record, and on the dogged p)erseverance with which 



1 (i) " The Home-life of a Golden Elagle." Photographed and Described 

 by H. B. Macpherson. Pp. 45 + 32 mounted plates. (L.ondon : Witherby 



Bootis. quae transivit medio loco inter superiorem colobori ' a°d Co.. 1909.; 



et caput Bootis; item linea ducta per Arcturum medio V ^'^ °"vT °''- r^"''^ '^k*'^''^'''*" ^'"^ l^"^*^ ^S ^^^ 



^,„^ 1*' •„,. ' 1 r» ^. *^^ 1. J T- Grant. \ ol. xxiv., Report on the Immigrants of Summer Residents in the 



erat loco inter praeced. manus Bootis et uit. caudae Lrsae j Spring of igoS; ako Notes on the Migratorj- Movements and Records 



Majoris. j received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1907. 



, . ^ .... ^ , , , I By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club. (London : 



A page is torn out at the begmning of the book witherby and Co., 190Q.) 



which mav have contained obser\-ationS prior to (3) " Catalogue of Canadian Birds." By John Macoun and James M. 



August 26: There is a note in Halley's handwriting j f^T' ^' ""+^'+'""- <°'^^= Government Printing Bureau, 



on the inside of the cover, *" August 16, primum \"isus j (4) "The Birds of the Leeward islands. Caribbean Sea." By C. B. 



ad initium Leonis," which evidentlv refers to this ^,T..i,^^<'^«,°,iH!'^''' ^^"Cv"'"°^-''^^^^^ =- .. 



^ „ . , . J ^ -I V ,. I (5) Birdsof Illinois and Wisconsin. By C. B. Corj-. (Chicago : F eld 



comet, but need not necessarily refer to his own ! Museum of Natural Historj-, 1909.) 



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