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miliar with great principles, and tenacious of settled truths, he 
was ready to welcome and encourage every new idea which ap- 
peared to be based on facts truly observed, and not unprepared 
or unwilling to stand, even if alone, against what he deemed 
unfair objection or unsubstantial hypothesis. 
This is not the place to speak of his private worth, or to in- 
dulge in reminiscence of his playful and exuberant fancy, the 
source of unfailing delight to those who knew him in his 
happier hours. Unmarried, but surrounded by plenty of cheer- 
ful relatives, his last hours of illness were soothed by sedulous 
affection ; his kindly disposition no suffering could conceal ; his 
ay interest in passing events nothing could weaken. 
ver 
“ Against oppression, fraud, or wrong, 
is voice rose high, his hand waxed strong.” 
With collected mind, on the verge of the grave, he would ex- 
press, with undiminished interest, his latest conclusions on his 
own Cambrian system, purely as a matter of scientific discus- 
sion, free from all personal considerations. It will be well if 
this mode of treatment be reverently followed by those who, 
while speaking of Protozoic and Paleozoic rocks, know enough 
to feel how much they have been benefited by the disinter- 
ested labors of a long and noble life. 
Art. XII. — Discovery of a new Planet; by Prof. 0. H. F. 
Prerers. (Communication to one of the Editors, dated Litch- 
field Observatory of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., May 
26, 1873.) 
I TAKE pleasure in giving notice of another planet of the as- 
teroid group, discovered night before last. It resembles a star 
of 11th magnitude, and was observed in the following positions: 
1873. = Ham. Coll. m.t. a (131). 6 (131). 
May 24. 15" 17m 58s 15" 16™ 10°90° —21° 17' 49°8” 
= 25. 18. Tn at 16 15 14°03 =91' 18 16 
whence its motion in twenty-four hours is concluded to be 
—1" 4° in A.R., and —18” in deel 
, € af . . 
Not far from the planet, only about a degree south of it, is 
that splendid, resolvable nebula 80 (Nessier) Scorpii; and four 
Lol farther north may now be observed the still oe 
aint comet of Tempel, of short period, whose position on May 
23d I determined é cate, 
413" 25" 545 m.t. a c= 16" 29" 18:06" 5 c= 16° 26’ 28'"0, 
with a motion of about ten minutes per day toward the south. 
