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The orb that rolls in dim eclipse 
Wide wheeling round its Jong eclipse, — 
His name Urania writes with these 
And stamps it on her Pleiades. 
We knew him not? Ah, well we knew 
The manly soul, so brave, so true, 
The cheerful heart that conquered age, 
The child-like, silver-bearded sage. 
No more his tireless thought explores 
The azure sea with golden shores ; 
Rest, wearied frame! the stars shall keep 
A loving watch where thou shalt sleep. 
Farewell! the spirit needs must rise, 
So long a tenant of the skies, — 
Rise to that home all worlds above 
Whose sun is God, whose light is love. 
Atlantic Monthly, December, 1880. 
BOOGEN@MICE Ss: 
*¢ BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE DE GEOGRAPHIC D’ ANVERS.”’ 
We have before us three elegant numbers of the Transactions of the Belgian 
Geographical Society at Antwerp. This society, though established as recently 
as October, 1876, seems to be one of the best working institutions of the kind in 
the world, and scarcely equaled in the long lists of distinguished scientists, who 
are its active or corresponding members, by any other geographical organization. 
Among the numerous interesting subjects discussed, we notice Mural Geographi- 
cal Paintings, Transportation from the Commercial Centers of Equatorial Africa, 
A Conference with Mr. De Lesseps on the Panama Canal; also, a most attractive 
article on the Chartography of the Ancients, or the Map-making and Geographical 
Knowledge of the Ancients. In this article, we find reproduced the rude maps 
of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Greeks. The pleasure we experience in looking 
over these transactions leads us to hope we shall be favored with the perusal of 
the future publications of the Geographical Society of Antwerp.—(J. F.) 
BULLETIN OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, vols. I, 11, 111. Wash- 
ington: Government Printing Office. 
This society was organized March 13, 1871, and Prof. Joseph Henry wa 
elected its first president. The objects of the society were stated by him to em 
brace the study of all those branches of knowledge that relate to the positive facts 
and laws of the physical and moral universe, and accordingly we find in the pro- 
