152 Obituary. 



^litchel visited Europe to purchase a telescope. At Munich, he found an 

 )l.je(;t glass of twelve inches aperture, which had been tested by Dr. 



pronounced c 



red. This was 



■dered to be mounted, and was purchased for $9,437. 



arrived in Cincinnati in February, 1845. In November, 



the observatory was laid by the venerable John 



■ • -^hty feet long and thirty feet broad. 



, perfected his well known sy^t'^m of 

 and published for a time the Sidereal Mes- 

 senger, the first exclusively Astronomical Journal in the United States. 

 His method of recordinor risfht ascensions and declinations by aid ot elec- 

 tro-magnetism, to withb ;^Wth of a second of time, is ^^l|J^^"^^J^Jy 

 ^?'iKT"!.'!Lt;n!,.,.!Zf^ ;nT'inr.™pries of tr^ansit measurements for dif- 

 h the U. S. Coast Survey. He re- 



measured Struve's double stars south of the equator, resolvmg "lany ' 

 before marked as double or triple. The exact period of rotation ot Mars 

 and the companion of Antares are also among his discoveries, lie re- 

 tained connection with this Observatory to the last; whde m 18oy ne 

 was also made Director of • the Dudley Observatory at Albany. ^^ ii'* 

 "Planetary and Stellar Worlds" and his "Popular Astronomy are 



tnong the best known ot tiis wntmgs. 

 Probably no discourses on so abstri 



created such an impression on the public 



tures in 1859 in the N. Y, Academy of iviusic, wuere uy n.^..--— -. 

 his descriptions— using no diagrams but such as he described in the air y 

 a wand— he held vast audienc^es in the most wrapt attention, unaidea ly 

 any of the usual accessories of scientific demonstration. The same ' 

 passioned eloquence moved his hearers, when the peril of \"S ''°" " J' 

 led him to abandon the Observer's chair and his equatonals o d nect 

 armies. The record of his remarkable military exploits belongs elsewbei^ 

 Suffice it to say that dying he leaves a record as brilliant m arms, as 

 been his career in other and more peaceful pursuits. , 



Newton Spaulding Manross.-Wc have also to record the \o^JJ^ 



this war of anothet , 



appeared in these pages — Newton Spaulding Manross, 1 h 

 Professor of Chemistry at Amherst, was killed in the battle ot .-- 

 September l7th, while gallantly leading a charge at the head ot hia 

 panv in the 16th Connecticut Volunteers. , x],g 



Dr. Manross was a graduate of Yale College in 1849, and ooK i 

 degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Gottingen in 1852. Geology au^_ 

 mining engineering were his special pursuits. He has been mutii ^^^ 

 pied in the exploration of the Isthmus of Panama with reference i ^.^ 

 proposed section of that neck of land by an interoceanic <''^"'\' ^^.^jj 

 description of the Pitch lake of Trinidad, which he vi^itod m Soo 

 be found in vol. xx, p. 153 of this Journal. His Inaugural The.is on 

 Artificial Production of Minerals' will also be recalled for Us merits. 



i.D., acting 



* Loomis's History of Astronomy i: 



i States, p. 452. 



