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mountains of Georgia a quantity of the refuse from the washings of a 
“pocket mine” of gold near Clarksville, Georgia, among which were 
small octahedral crystals affording, by the reflective goniometer, for 
the angle of the pele 124° 45’, cat for that over a basal edge, 81° 
40’, which are the angles of xenotim H=4" B.B. with borax 
and salt of phosphorus slowly diated ‘toa colorless giass,; and with 
soda effervesces readily and forms a cream-colored slag. The asso: 
are zircon, rutile, kyanite, tinge 
iron, garnet, and quartz. The mineral has bet tested chemically for 
phosphoric acid by Mr. Craw of the Yale Laboratory, in hee 
with a request from Prof. Gibbes, and an abundant precipitate of this 
ingredient was obtaine 
‘9. Xenotime in the Gold region of North Carolina.—Prof. C. 
Sueparp in a letter dated Dec. 1, states that he has er cbbe crystals of 
es eg among the sands of the gold washings of McDowal Co., N. C 
0. Daguerrotypes.—M. Avsrét has obtained desinarcaety peat in 
shiney seconds with shige light. In two trials he used fluorid of bro- 
mine diluted with water. He also employed chlorobromid of se but 
with less success. 
11. Vegetable Parasites in Sugar.—M. Paven has observed in sugar 
at Paris a parasitic vegetation which runs in cavities in lines, and 
changes the sugar to a reddish tint. The sporules of this cryptogamic 
vegetation were not over one to two thousandths of a millimeter in 
length. During ihe present year he detected in a refinery at Paris 
variety of this vegetation without a reddish tint, occupying irregularly 
Scattered cavities ; its sporules are a little larger than in the red 
kind sides of the cavities are covered by a thin membrane from 
which the filaments proceed. This vegetation he refers to the Mucedi- 
new and has named it Glycyphila from the Greek yAveus, sweet, and 
gos, lover. : 
12. Climate of Nischne Tagilsk, Urals, (L’Institut, No. 921.)—M. 
eter a states the minimum temperature for January 1851 at — 
F., and the maximum at +274 F., on the sixteenth of the month at 4 
¥ ais The meam temperature of the month was +44 F. Snowed 
29 times. 
The minimum for February was —20° F.; the maximum He ¥. 
at 3 P.M. on the 15th; the mean +52 F. Snowed 19 tim 
The minimum for oh — 253 F.; the maximum +42 F, on the 
29th at 3 yp. u.; the mean +164 F. Days of s 
aes reat of Siero: —Letters have been nadreieed by Lord Pal- 
erston—as well as from the British Colonial office—to the various 
British Coney: requesting their co-operation in the collection of data 
pati a Bod of imme a plan urged by Col. Reid. — Atheneum, 
Rob solid and be raped tir Bact ke eral Gays, 
(and I do not know but an indefinite time,) when upon thawing them — 
