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15. Electro-Telegraphic Progress, (Athen., No. 1261; from the 
Builder. )—The Submarine Telegraph Company are getting made sev- 
eral new metallic cables, in addition to that already in operation—one 
conductor being already insufficient to convey the multitude of des- 
patches now exchanged between London and the continent. The facil- 
causes a few minutes break in the communication. e desideratum 
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dissolved in ether—a small quantity of gutta percha: is added, which 
readily dissolves. This is employed with the ordinary materials for 
the processes on glass,—the picture being developed by pyro-gallic 
acid. extraordinary sensibility of this preparation may be infer- 
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more adherent than the ordinary collodion or albumen :—we may, 
fore, expect many valuable results from Mr. Fry’s discovery. 
T%,, Perturbations of Uranus, (Atheneum, No. 1261.)—The Paris 
correspondent of the Literary Gazette says :—* A curious fact for’as- 
ronomers has just been ascertained. In the pers of the celebrated 
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800, he and irckhardt were of opinion, from calculations, that there 
ve @ planet beyond Uranus, and they occupied themselves for 
Sometiine in trying to discover its precisé position.” 
18. the Structure of the Lunar Surface, and its relations to that 
of the Earth; by James Nasmyrtu, Esq., (Jameson’s Edinburgh New 
Phil. : 1851.)—Some of the principles brought forwa 
in this paper by Mr. Nasmyth, will be found in a paper by J § 
in this Journal, 2nd series, ii, 335-855, 1846. and iii, 94, 1847. 
pleryx.—A live apteryx has reached the zoological gardens, 
London. % ‘ gee 
. OBITUARY. ~~ : 
AMES E. Dexay.—Dr, Dekay died on the 21st of November last, at 
his residence on Long Island, at the age of 59, He is extensively 
