442 Bibliography. 
Great Britain; Captain James, of the Royal Engineers, is Director of 
that of Ireland ; Professor Edward Forbes is Palzontologist, and Mr. 
Warrington Smyth, Mining Geologist for the United Kingdom ; and 
there is reason to believe that Dr. Hooker will be appointed to the de- 
partment of Botany.* Mr. John Phillips is engaged in the Survey of 
the North of England, and one laboratory of the Museum of Economic 
Geology is under the diréction of Mr. Richard Phillips, one of the foun- 
ders of this Society,‘and another under the direction of Dr. Lyon Play- 
fair. There are besides several able officers in different departments. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Pai: 
_ 1. The Sidereal Messenger, a Monthly Journal, devoted to Astro- 
nomical Science. 4to. Monthly.. 8 pp. each, with engravings. Cin- 
cinnati, O. Price $3 a year.—Prof. O. M. Mitchel, the able and en- 
terprising. director of the Cincinnati Observatory, has undertaken a 
periodical work, whose title we have cited above. Its object, as stated 
in the prospectus, is ‘* to record in a plain and simple form, the results 
of the researches made with the great achromatic refractor of the ob- 
servatory,—to present the earliest astronofnical intelligence from all 
parts of the world,—to furnish to our countrymen, in their own lan- . 
guage, the most interesting articles from foreign astronomical journals, 
-—to excite an interest among the people in the elevating study of as- 
tronomy,—and to give a permanent support to the Institution under 
whose auspices the publication is made.” Four numbers are already 
issued, containing the articles named below, besides various other in- 
teresting notices. 
Account of the pe eter Ohbaasans. and the Great Refractor. 
Telescopic View of the Mo 
_ Account of Biela’s Double Comet. 
Maedler on the Central Sun 
- Loomis on the Physical Constitution of the 
paces 3 Phenomena observed during the Total 1 Eclipse of the Sun, July 7, 
842. 
~ Orbitual Motion of the Double Stars 
~ Observations on Double Stars, made with the Cincinnati Refractor. 
from Eminent Foreign Astronomers 
This Journal, the first on our Contitient, devoted solely to astronomy, 
promises to be highly useful to the science of the country, and reflects 
great credit on the city of its — We trust it will be liberally sup- 
Ported. ; 
2. The Trees of America, native and feroignn pictorially and botan- 
ically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described, etc., illus- 
Zi “aga engravings ; by D. J. Brownz, New York; k, 1846, 
& & Brothers. 1 vol. large eave 500.-—Fhie 3 is the work of a 
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