46 hife and Character of Natlianiel Boioditch. 



And thou, refulgent orb of day ! 



In brighter flames arrayed, 

 My soul, which springs beyond thy sphere, 



No more demands thine aid. 



Ye stars are but the shining dust 



Of my divine abode, 

 The pavement of those heavenly courts, 



Where I shall reign with God. 



The Father of eternal light 

 Shall there his beams display ; 

 , Nor shall one moment's darkness mix 



With that unvaried day." 



DR. BOWDITCH'S SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. 



The following is a list of the Papers contributed by Dr. Bowditch to the Me- 

 moirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It will serve to show the 

 extent of his observations and the variety of his inquiries. 



VOL. II. 



New Method of Working a Lunar Observation. 



VOL. III. 



Observations on the Comet of 1807. 



Observations on the Total Eclipse of the Sun, June 16, 1806, made at Salem. 



Addition to the Memoir on the Solar Eclipse of June 16, 1806. 



Application of Napier's Rule for solving the cases of right-angled spheric trigo- 

 nometry to several cases of oblique-angled spheric trigonometry. 



An estimate of the height, direction, velocity and magnitude of the Meteor that 

 exploded over Weston, in Connecticut, Dec. 14, 1807. 



On the Eclipse of the Sun of Sept. 17, 1811, with the longitudes of several pla- 

 ces in this country, deduced from all the observations of the eclipses of the Sun, 

 and transits of Mercury and Venus, that have been published in the Transac- 

 tions of the Royal Societies of Paris and London, the Philosophical Society held 

 at Philadelphia, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



Elements of the orbit of tlie Comet of 1811. 



An estimate of the height of the White Hills in New Hampshire. 



On the variation of the Magnetic Needle. 



On the motion of a pendulum suspended from two points. 



A demonstration of the rule for finding the place of a Meteor, in the second 

 problem, page 218 of this volume. 



VOL. IV. 



On a mistake which exists in the solar tables of Mayer, La Lande, and Zach. 



On the calculation of the oblateness of the earth, by means of the observed 

 lengths of a pendulum in different latitudes, according to the method given by La 

 Place in the second volume of his " Mecanique Celeste," with remarks on other 

 parts of the same work, relating to the figure of the earth. 



Method of correcting the apparent distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star, 

 for the effects of Parallax and Refraction. 



