Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Epoch Dee. 0:0, Berlin m. t. i= 8° 8/144 
M = 308° 40’ 1” g=ll 2% 41 
a= 1386 47 50 “= 781""152 
Q= 28 49 28 log a=0'438181. 
6. Comet IV, 1864.—On the 11th of December, 1864, Mr. Baker 
Nauen, near Berlin, discovered a telescopic comet. 
pectrum of a shooting star—Herschel has recently obse 
spectrum of a shooting star. It appeared near Capella, and was 
as brilliant as that star. He followed it for more than a second in 
1. Patent regenerative Gas-furnaces, of C. W. & F. Sremens.—? 
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