282 Scientific I; ntelligence. 
and Maps now published embrace all of Baily’s sre for half os 
northern hemisphere, from the 12th to the 24th hour of R. A. 
trust M. Sestini will be encouraged to complete the enste he has al 
and will give us the colors of the remaining stars of Baily’s Catalogue, 
and perhaps extend his plan so as to embrace a still wider vr 
4, Sixth Comet of 1846, (Colla, in L’Institut, Nov. 846. )— 
A telescopic comet was discovered June 26, 1846, in prshin near 
the star 595 Mayer, by the German astronomer, M. Peters, at the Royal 
Observatory at Naples. It was followed by him (ill July 23, during 
which period he secured observations on nine different evenings. |. 
appears to have been observed nowhere else, except once at Rome. 
At the time of its discovery it was very faint, without sensible nucleus, 
and resembled nebula No. 19 of the 6th class of Herschel, from which 
it was about a degree distant. Its motion was svinhotise and increas- 
ing in R. A., and its appearance se = very dim. M. Peters compu- 
ted the following parabolic elemen 
» Perihelion pass. 1846, May 30, 12h. 56™ 35 m. t. Berl. 
——e of se. ney 337° 20° 23"-2 \ M. Sti” Son 0. 
258 44 47°6 
Wetiation, 3 34.590 4k? 
nrc disk” eee a 
Mot dire 
_ M. Darien of Berlin, atten cnlovtaild two sets of parabolic elements. 
As neither of them well satisfied the observations, he computed the fol- 
lowing elliptic elements, which agree better with the observations. 
Epoch, ch, 1846, ey 21, 8) Berlin 
A, 3 
6! 47-1 
t 4 ; : . 242 56 38 
a : , . . 239 49 51 ata. equin. 1846, 
ft ust hoy ‘ + 260 12 25.91 
ob ; , j debe. Tao 
a . ‘ 9 49 10.34 3 
“Tog. es 0-800762 
8 Bid. Revolut 5804°3 days. 
woe Hind’s rors (Cc elles ih Estiidi, Nov. 11, 1846. \—The ui 
scopic comet discovered by: Mr. J. R. Hin at Enled; July 29, 164 
(see ii Ser., vol. ii, p. 439,) had been detected two hours previous, by 
De Vico at the Observatory of Rome. It was observed Sones about 
a month. Various sets of the parabolic elements of its orbit been 
published, differing widely from each — and from the provisional 
elements furnished by Mr. Hind. > 
The elements by Funk, Powalsky, rid Oudemans, agree tolerably 
well. The following is the set computed by Oudemans. 
Perih. pass. July 28-502 m. t. Berlin. 
Lang. = sel deny : SPSS) 
se, node, . 3 . 2 YAR IO 
ahdation, ‘ ‘ i .) 64.42 
8. a rih. dint. ‘ ‘ j : ee 
ograde. - 
6. Le Verr a titiors have tee falling thick: aut Le Verrier 
wits his splendid discovery. He has been made an officer of the Le- 
