128 Scientific Intelligence. 
interesting and suggestive paper “On the physical coe of 
the Sun and Stars,” communicated to the Royal Society, May — 
15th, 1867, Mr. G. J. St toney apa that he has vee tim 
thought that he observed a bri right line somewhat more refrangible : 
an D in examining the sun with a spectroscope composed of two - 
flint glass prisms, as well as two other lines, one between 10259 — 
and 1027°7 of Kirchhoff’s scale, and another between the two | i 
ng the summer of the present year Mr. Stoney saw sev- 7 
eral faint bright lines in other Be cor of the spectrum, one coincid- — 
ties noted by Mr. Lockyer. eae in Comptes, Rendus, Ixvil, 
759; Janssen in Comptes Rendus, \xvii, 838; Lockyer in Comptes | 
Rendus, Ixvil, 904; Stoney in Proceedings of Roy oa Society, 7 | 
"2, On the magnetism of chemical combinations.—W 1 Be : 
whom we owe most of our precise knowledge of the rae 4 
S 
e same : 
metal, the magnetism referred to the pick ban of the Wyner _% 
or the atomic ma agnetism, is sensibly constant. The author’s new — 
results may be stated as follows: 
(1.) Observations made by the method used in his former invest . 
salts of cerium, didymium and oxyd of copper (CuO). Taking 
unit previously eateblisked. we have for the atomic magnetism of 
aqueous solutions of the salts above mentioned the “following 
TS: 
—— of didymium, - - . 104°4 
Nitr - - - 104°2 
Chlorid . - - est ROR 
Acetate = - - -  105°7 
Nitrate of cerium (CeO - . 48°7 
Chlorid of cerium (CeCl),—- - ed 
Sulphat opper . - 49°5 
ee Nitrate of copper, . . a 507 
_ Chlorid of copper, (CuCl), - - 48°9 
ee Bromid of co copper, (CuBr), - - -  47°7 
- - 48°0 
@. ) We obtain ee umstely the same values for the solid salts, 
; ta te 2y contain water of crystallization, For anby 
o te the. stomne m i Sone is tea general a little less than ! 
ninution is Tie sensible 
