284 Scientific Intelligence. 
Ivy. ASTRONOMY. 
. Fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth Asteroids—The re discovered Sept, 
26, 1858, by M. Goldschmidt at Paris, has been named Alezandra, and 
numbered as the ffly. -fourth of the series, The: antioend discovered on 
the same night, by Mr. George Searle at Albany, N. Y., has been named 
Pandora, and is numbered the fifty-fifth. 
2. Another Asteroid—In 1857, Mr. E. Schubert of Washington, un 
dertook a series of a of the asteroid Daphne. On computin, 
his observations h eee to discover that he had not fou 
Daphne but had siearved for it a new asteroid in the neighborhood, 
He has computed its elements, and it is to be hoped that the body will 
be — 
Review of Gilliss’s Astronomical Observations in Chili,* (from 
Gould’s Astronomical Journal, 1858, p. 168).—This volume, thongh bear- 
ing the date of the year in which the observations were printed, has only 
been issued a few weeks. It contains 332 pages of observations of Mars 
and Venus during two oppositions of the former and inferior a" 
of the latter, made at Santiago by Lieut. Gilliss or under his superintend 
ce. These series comprise both micrometric comparisons with the equ 
torial, and absolute determinations with the meridian circle. — 
followed by 69 pages from the Washington Observatory, yee 
scription of the equatorial and a series of micrometri¢ © rvations ns by 
micrometric determinations of right-ascension. Finally, Mr. pyre” 
the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, has furnish ja 
tensive series of micrometer- ere with the ‘preselected stars, 
ing the first “es of 
es of stuieraticns and accompanying remnatte ie i 
A sad 
pa thle risons of 
The plan of the expedition contemplated micrometric wd jeut. iis 
on limbs of the planets, with stars previously selected Py in ern het 
know ane 
ations sho 
a 8 of discussion has been employed, which, ask 
oo laa amount of toil, seemed to afford the only sea wg 
ng the Shelevations serviceable for the fulfilmen 
etho d may be brie fly described. 
x Ne Ss. 
ere, during 
Astronomical Expedition ahora a ee mp 2 ‘ ae 
to 
, Boperintendent, Washington, 1 1 sk gong 
