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water at a large angle, but otherwise; as near as I have been able 
Jndge about 5° or 6°, 
have come on board the other day, and to do that I should think must 
have risen at least eight or ten feet.—Proc. Boston Soc. NV. H., x, 21. 
6. Dodo.—On the 9th of January, Professor Owen read a paper be- 
fore the Zoological Society of London on the osteology of the Dodo 
(Didus ineptus, Linn.). The materials upon which Prof. Owen’s re- 
se 
nearly every part of the skeleton, Prof. Owen came to the conclusion that 
_ authorities had been correct in referring the Dodo to the Colum- 
he group, the variations presented, though considerable, being mainly 
such as might be referable to the adaptation of the Lodo to a terrestrial 
and different food and habits. —Athen., Jan. 20, 1866. 
Iv. ASTRONOMY. 
1. Observations of Shooting Stars on the nights of Nov. 12-14th, 
1865.—To the accounts given in the last number of this Journal, pp. 
Were kept constantly directed, during these hours 
ue heavens in the general direc 
are visible on every clear night. : 
shaped, and radiated from the sickle in the constellation Leo. On the 
Rext night only four of the 23 were “cigar” shaped. : aig 
rom a report in the Royal Astronomical Society — 
ae (2). In England.—F, in 
Aw. Jour. Sc1.—Seconp Szrres, Vou. XLI, No. 122. 
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