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8. Miscellanea.—The following are the more important botanical 
publications which have accumulated _— our table 
Transactions of the Linnean Society of pz Second 
Series, parts 5 and 6, of vol. i—These fe ntain Casimir DeCan- 
dolle’s paper -on the geographical distribution of the Meliacea, 
with a map; New British Lichenes by Leighton, with a fine 
witch’s Angolan Herbarium, by Baker; New Zealand Lichenes, 
a Knight; the fine paper on the morphology of Primulacee, by 
Masters; a new genus of parasitic Algw tr conidial fructifica- 
tion in the Mucorini, by D. D. Cunningham; Fungi from Queens- 
land, by Berkeley and Browne e, and the Rev. George Henslow’s 
memoir on self-fertilization in plants, which has been reviewed in 
this Journal at some length. 
Nouvelles Archives du Museum.—The first volume of the 
aN species of so al spe eleven of Syri nga, includ- 
ing a 
r. Ann, Sclentition ealisne, Ann. xv.—A general review of 
botanical publications of 1878, Signor Delpino, now Professor 
of Botany in the University of Genoa, sends us also continua- 
tions of his valuable wet on dichogamy of sgh and some 
A. & 
Ill. Astronomy. 
1. Ephemeris of the Satellites of Mars for Oct. and Nov., 
<The following ephemeris, ten uted from Prof. Hall’s i Rak 
of the satellites of Mars, gives the approximate position angles 
and distances of the satellites about the time of elongation. Only 
— of those elongations are given which may be observed 
rica. On Nov. 1 the probable error of the spn, eee angle 
Ot position } is for Deities + 0°.6 and for Phobos + 8° 
Deimos. 
. T.| Pos, Ang.| Dist. | Date. |Wash. M. T.!Pos.Ang.| Dist. - 
232° Oct. 30} 15 34 | 232° 
52°1 60:80 ||Nov. 1) 12 0 52-7 | 66-88 
62° 3 9 27 232° 
232° 4, 15 45 232 
52° 62°2 5 6 54 52 
52 6} 18 12 52° 
231- gs} 10 38 | 231° 66°6 
613 63°73 9} 16 56 231 
51 age ae 51° 
231° 11) .14:..23 . 
1" tg) 11 .60.[ . 281" 
232 65- 15 17 50°8 | 64°88 
