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gion of Honor by the King of France ; and besides, a chair has been 
established for him at the Faculty of Science at Paris, entitled Mathe- 
matical Astronomy or Celestial Mechanism, ust of him has also 
been ordered by royal authority for the College of Swint-Lé, and M. 
Pradier is appointed to execute it. From the King of Denmark, he 
has received the title of Commander of the Royal Order of the Dane- 
brog, and the Royal Society of London has conferred on him the 
Copley medal. 
“dF GatLi.—The cross of the Red Eagle has been conferred, by 
the King of Prussia, on the discoverer of Le Verrier’s planet. 
V. MiscetnaNneous INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Effects of the Earth’s Rotation upon Falling Bodies and upon 
by W. C. Rep 
the Atmosphere ; 3 FIELD, (communicated for this Journal.) 
--From the remarks which were made On the Deviation of Falling 
center to the body. If then, the body have its distance from the sur- 
minish its latitude ; fora line drawn between it and the earth’s center, 
will intersect the surface nearer and nearer the equator, as the body 
pendicular belongs to falling bodies in the southern hemisphere. 
