138 Scientific Intelligence. 
Epoch wig woh wie M. T. Paris. 
Mean anomaly, 236) 5458 
Long. perihelion, - - ia 50 22 81 Mn. Eqnx. © 
“asc. node, - . 356 20 34 -94 } Mar. 0-0, 1854. 
Inclination, Pr 8eR Urge Gs 
Angle of excontiity, - - 4 34 47 -04 
Mean daily moti . - 864-3666 
Semi-axis thal, - - 2:5637300 
Period of pavoltition : - 4yts- 104962 
This planet was discovered independently by M. heidi assist: 
ant observer at the Observatory of Paris, on the third of Mar He 
also on the fourth of February, at Marseilles, noted a star of He tenth 
magnitude which is now wanting in that place, and which is shown to 
have been the body first recognized as a planet by Mr. Marth. 
2. New Comet, I. of 1854, (Comptes Rend., xxxviii, 648.)—The 
comet which was visible to ne naked eye on the twenty-ninth of Mareh 
last and the few following days, was seen on ve same day in Paris. 
The following elements were computed by Mr. James Ferguson (A& 
tron. Journ., No. 71,) from the Washington beet ¥atialie of April 3, 
7 and 11. 
Perihelion passage, 1854, MATER +5] 0581, M. T. Berlin. 
Long. Dek rihelion, - 214° 52’ 52”-0 ) Ma. Eqnx 
c. node, 6 nahn Saeed ee ays 7-0, 1854. 
inclintiion ‘ - 83. 30. 33.°4 
Log: perihelion dist, - - 9-441070 
- Retrograde. 
— comet was seen in the east on the morning of the twenty-third 
of March by Mr. Alfred de Menciaux near Damazan in France. 
8. Annular Solar Eclipse of May 26, 1854.—From a communica: 
tion in the Boston Evening Traveler, May 29, 1854, we gather some 
the following particulars respecting the solar eclipse of May 26, ea 
On account of cloudy weather, the eclipse was but partially observe 
throughout New England, and in — places wholly lost. At Cam 
ridge, Mass., the formation of the ring was observed and it occurs 
within seven seconds of the time predicted by R. 'T. Paine, Esq. in bis 
communication to the American ademy,—which is a remarkably 
close coincidence. The see and: rupture of the ring ee a two 
cent.” At the Coast Survey station on the summit of Mount 
éus, nearly i in the central line, the sun wis invisible throughout sia dey 
A City, Ogdensburg, and Washington, the sky was V 
favorable, ey good observations of the phenomena were secured, od 
cluding numerous heli ore pictures with the times of each. it 
Effect on the Deviation of the —— Needle.—Mr. J. G. Evv® 
sends us an account of observations made by him at Morgantow® 
Burke Co., N. C., on the deviation of the magnetic needle. The instr" 
ment with. which: his observations were made was a miner’s compa, 

