a 
of 220 analyses, comprising soils, rocks, coals, iron ores, mineral waters, 
ete., and covers 250 pages of the volume. S.S. Lyon presents a contin- 
uation (from vol. ii) of the Topographical Geological Report of the sur- 
yey in the counties of Greeniphts ter, Lawrence and Hancock, for the 
year 1857, containing geological sections as well as facts bearing on the 
topography ; and following this, a Report on the Paleontology. contain- 
ing descriptions of new species of Crinoids, which are beautifully figured 
on five plates. Mr. Leo Lesquereux follows with a brief but most valua- 
ble report on the Coal Measures and their Flora. No. person in the 
lil. ASTRONOMY. 
1. Two new Planets, (Gould’s Astr. Jour., No. 111).—The jifty-first 
oe of the asteroid-group was discovered January 22, 1858, by Mr. 
trent, at the observatory of Professor Valz at Nismes. Its apparent 
Diagnitude is 11-10, and it has been‘named Nemausa. 
_The jfifty-second of the group was discovered February 4, 1858, by 
Mr. Goldschmidt, at Paris. 
-he names of the asteroidal planets discovered since Ariadne (43), are 
as follows: Nysa (44), Eugenia (43), Hestia (46), Aglaia (47); Doris (4s), 
Pales (49), Virginia (50), Nemausa (51). The name of (52) has not yet 
Teached us, 
2. First Comet of 1858, (Gould’s Astron. Jour., 109, 111).—This 
comet was detected by Mr. H. P. Tuttle, at Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 4, 1858, 
in. 
The parabolic elements deduced by Dr. Bruhns from the Berlin and 
