432 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO iS^S. 



An Occultation of Saturn hy the Moon, Feb. 27, 1678, N. S. Observed at Paris 



by M. Bulliald. N° ISQ, p. 969. 



Bulliald observed the beginning of this occultation at Paris, at a time when 

 tlie observed altitude of the star in the head of Andromeda, above the western 

 horizon, was 18" ll'; whence it follows that the astronomical time from noon 

 was given equal to 7^ 20"™; but the mean time was 7^ 29"^ 55®. And he saw 

 the end when the more southern star of Andromeda's girdle, of the second 

 magnitude, was 21° 17' high to the west. Whence the astronomical time from 

 noon is found to be S*' 30"^ 22^ 



M. Bulliald gave calculations of this occultation from several astronomical 

 tables then in practice, not of any use now to be reprinted. These calculations 

 commonly show a considerable difference from the real observed times. Parti- 

 cularly, the philolaic tables make Saturn 1 9' farther advanced in longitude than 

 he really is by observation ; so that Saturn was then in n 3° 28', with 1° 38* 

 south latitude. — Further, in this observation by having recourse to the descrip^ 

 tion of the lunar disk, as given by M. Hevelius, we found Saturn to emerge in 

 that part of the limb, which is situated in a right line drawn from the middle 

 of Mount Berosus through the Riphaean mountains, a little above Mount 

 Alanus, and below the southern limits of the hyperborean marshes. 



Of Red Snow seen at Genoa. By Sig. Sarotti, the Venetian Resident here, and 

 by him communicated to the Honourable Mr. Boyle. N° 139, P- 97^' 



On St. Joseph's day, on the mountains called Le Langhe, there fell on the 

 white snow, that lay there before, a great quantity of red, or if you please of 

 bloody snow. From which, being squeezed, there came a water of the same 

 colour. 



Anatomical Observations on the Structure of the Nose, made by Mons. du Verney.* 



N° 139, p. 976. 



Mons. du Verney observes, that the cavities of the nose are filled with many 

 cartilaginous lamina^ distinct from each other; every lamina being divided into 



* Guichard Joseph du Verney was bom at Feurs in Forez, ifi-iS. He prosecuted his medical 

 studies at Avignon, and afterwards removed to Paris j where he was chosen member of the Academy 

 of Sciences, and was appointed to demonstrate the structure of the different parts of tlie human body 

 before the Dauphin. He was also elected to the anatomical chair in the king's garden. He died at 

 Paris in 1730, aged 82. His principal work is on the organ of hearing, published in French, and 

 afterwards translated into Latin, English, and German. Besides this treatise, Du Verney wrote se- 



