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6. Violet colors from iodine.—Prof.. Hormann has patented in England 
the process of manufacturing a new color, obtained from iodine, which 
affords several beautiful varieties of violet. The material, which is to be 
used for dying, is made by mixing rosaline with the iodids of ethyl, 
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a cave at Bethlehem, and also on Mt. Sinai; and that the former locality 
will no doubt be examined by the Duc de Luynes’s expedition.— Reader, 
April 2. 
8. Bone-Cave in Borneo.—A bone-cave has been stated to occur in 
Northwestern Borneo, containing numerous bones in the hardened guano 
which constitutes its floor; but none of the bones have yet been col- 
or examined. y 
'.. 9, Heights in the Rocky Mountains.—Pike’s Peak, according to ob- 
servations by C. C. Parry, in July, 1862, has an elevation of 14,215 feet, 
and Mt. Gray, on the upper waters of South Clear Creek, of 14,245 feet. 
Mr. Parry remarks: that the observations in both these cases were made 
under unusually favorable circumstances, and are believed to furnish ac- 
curate results—C. C. Parry, in the Daily Rocky Mcuntain News, for 
March 13, 1868, Denver, Colorado Ter. 
10. Astronomy in France.—A proposition has emanated from Le Verrier 
for the establishment of a comprehensive Astronomical and Meteorological 
Association, the head office to be in the Imperial Observatory. The As- 
ing its precise rise 
observations in four-fifths of the averages, and that in the remaining 
in ape : 
to cost, including tra jon and mounting, $18,187, and to be fin- 
ep vigeanmsaaa delaras rae g, 91 . 
: The tower is to be octagonal in shape, 35 feet in diameter and 100 fest 
high to the hemispherical top. Another tower, also, is to be erected, for 
