Astronomy. 135 
N. Y., a lover of astronomy who has given special attention to 
solar observations, and from Gen, A. J. Myer, chief signal officer 
of the army, who witnessed the eclipse from the summit of a moun- 
tain in Southwestern Virginia,—these with the prefatory intro- 
duction of Commodore Sands composing the work now issued, 
which is copiously illustrated with cuts and engravings. 
rof. Newcomb’s point of observation was near the Court-house 
Washington. ollowing out the ideas previously suggested by 
him eens of different di- 
thus fixing their positions for the purpose of mapping the poe, 
o 
the visibility of any inferior planet or group capable of accounting 
for the motion of the perihelion of Mereury being made highly 
berance in the §.W. quadrant seemed to him strongly pink, not 
uniform in structure, nor at all resembling a flame, but os a huge 
with and without the aid of the comet-seeker. e great rotu- 
equal to the moon’s semidiameter and he saw nolong rays of light, 
