164 Mascellaneous Intelligence. 
6. Tableau de? Astronomie dans ? Hemisphere Austral et dans 
?Inde ; by Dr. E. Marrxy, Bruxelles, 8vo, pp. 232. Extract from 
the 23d vol. of Memoirs of the Ro oyal Ac cademy of Belgium.—This 
is an interesting and minute account of the equipment of all the 
observations in the southern hemisphere and India, with the work 
accomplished in each from Halley’s formation of a catalogue at 
St. Helena in 1677, of 341 southern stars, to the establishment of 
the observatory at Cordoba, by Dr. Gould. 
Victoria, on the 19th of May, 1873, at 10 ep. @—Monthly Raton 
Melbourne Observatory, iret d May, 1873. 
IV. MisceLLANeEowus ScientiFic INTELLIGENCE. 
1. American Metrological Society.—On the 30th of December, 
umber of gentlemen met at Columbia College, pursuant to a 
res, F. A. ormed the Ame 
bility with eth 6 ther. 
An object secondary to this will be to secure the universal 
adoption of common units ae measures for the expression of quan- 
tities which require to be stated in presenting the results of phyel 
cal observation or Savestiasaions and for which the ordinary sys 
tems of metrology do not provide—such as the divisions of the 
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usage in regard to standard points of. reference, or to those 
sere conditions to which observations must be reduced for 
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Seg om ; Council, 8. B. Ru iy os Profs. H. A. Newton, 
T. R. Pynchon, J. E. Hil gard, We j oleatt Gibbs, and C. §, Lyman, 
E. B. Elliott, Esq., Profs. J. P. Cooke, R. W. Raymond, and R. 
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