400 E. H. F. Peters—Discovery of a new Planet. 
Shark River, Monmouth county, New Jersey, and was presented 
to the Peabody Museum of Yale College by Dr. W.S. Kimball, 
of Eatontown in that state. 
synopsis of the known American species of fossil Ophidia 
will at present, in accordance with the above determinations, 
stand as follows :— 
Family BOID As. ? 
Genus DrnopuHis Marsh. 
Dinophis littoralis (Cope). 
Paleophis littoralis Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1868, 
p. 147 and 234. Also Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., vol. xiv, 1869, plate 
v, fig. 1. 
Dinophis halidanus (Cope). 
Paleophis halidanus Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1868, 
p. 234. Also Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., vol. xiv, 1869, plate v, fig. 2. 
Dinophis grandis Marsh. 
Am. Journal of Science, 2nd Series, vol. xlviii, 1869, p. 397. 
eries have led paleontologists familiar with these groups to — 
confidently anticipate, will doubtless at no distant day reward 
explorations in the proper geological horizon. 
Yale College, New Haven, Conn., Oct. 25th, 1869. 
Art. XLL— Discovery of a new Planet, the 109th; by Dr. E. — 
H. F. Persrs (in a letter to one of the Editors). a 
_ I write to communicate the discovery made here on Satur- q 
day night, of a planet, the 109th of the asteroid ays Itis = 
in the constellation of Pisces, more properly in the following 
tion: o a 
1869, Oct. 9, 184 31 58%, Hamilton College mean time. A. | 
R.=0" 56™ 2°60. Decl.= +9° 37’ 10-6”. — 4 
Its motion in declination is almost nothing; that in right as- a 
cension over a minute per day. In brightness it equals a star 
of the 10th tide ; 
Litchfield Observatory of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., Oct. 11th, 1869. 
