Astronomy. 77 
France, 1872, p. 153), i. e., has petioled and connate cotyledons, 
from the base of which false radicle the succeeding leaves come 
forth. .G 
8. BE. Regel: Animadversiones de Plantis vivis nonnullis Hort. 
Bot. Imp. Petropolitani.—An undated pamphlet, issued this spring. 
It contains several Californian plants raised from seeds collected 
ll but one of which we can identify. Regel’s Aster 
malwaflora Gray. His Campanula Rezli is C. prenanthoides 
TV. ASTRONOMY. 
1. Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made during 
the year 1870 at the U. S. Naval Observatory ; Rear Admira 
B. ANDs, Sup’t.—This thick volume gives the results of the 
streams. It brightened again at 10" 55", reaching an altitude of 
; and again at 11° 30’. It was seen also at Cape Otway. 
V. MiscenLANEous Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Earthquake wave of Au 14, 1868, and depth of the 
Paci —J. E. feltati oe he Coen Survey, has caleulated the 
depths indicated by the observations on the rate of transmission 
of the earthquake wave of Aug. 13, the shocks of which were 
hearly vertical at Arica, Peru. The first shock began at 5" 05™ 
sted till 5" 15", and the first wave at 5° 32". We cite 
an abstract of his paper in the Coast Survey Report for 1869, 
Tecently issued (p. 233), the table containing his results. 
