432 Scientific Intelligence. 
ITV. ASTRONOMY. 
1. Discovery of another minor Planet, Sappho, (0). —Mr. Pogson, of the 
Observatory at Madras, announces the discov very by him of another small 
planet, on the 3d of May last. Its light was that of a star of the 
Oth-11th magnitude. Its position May 3d, 13 44m 118 Madras meau 
time, was, « = 16 12m 33-41; d = 16° 47! 10'"8, He has given to it 
the name Sappho. 
2. Comet II, 1864, A very faint telescopic comet was discovered in 
ma Berenices, on the 28d of July, by Donati at Florence. It had a 
small star-light nucleus. In a few days it was lost in the sun’s light. 
Mr. Kriiger, of Bonn, gives the following elements, computed from 
the observations of July 28th, July 31st, and Aug. 2d. 
Perihelion passage 1864, Oct. 11-088, mean Berlin time. 
mt 169" 0° 26" 
Q = 31 5912 
baie ve 
ave eres ting stars on ‘the night ‘of Aug. 9-10th, 1864. —At several 
laces ements were made to watch for the annual return of the 
August meteors. But fey tiess roca New England and the Middle States 
the air was so smoky that, on the night of the 9th, but a few of the fix 
stars near the sce were visible. 
isted me. ogi we saw 44 meteors during these three 
hours after which the clouds became too thick for us to observe. 
At Belvidere, N.J., Rev. H. 8. Osborn and Mr. G. H. Coursen saw be- 
tween 10h 20m and one o'clock, 29 flights. There was the same smoky 
_ sky as in New Haven. 
__ At Philadelphia, Mr. B. V. Marsh and Mr. R. M. Gummere saw through 
ws 13, os 105 40™ and 124, of which 12 were ce 
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