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browsing, as it were, upon w what — find in their road, and 
washing away what they do not need Bo means = a pow erful 
current produced by their abdominal apy d 
by the hor. 
10. New Species of Cer atodus, from the Jurassic ; by O. C. 
Marsu.—Among the interesting vertebrate remains recently found 
in the Jurassic of Colorado is a tooth of a Ceratodus, in good 
projections, which are separated by four notches. The front pro- 
Jection is longest, and most pointed. The et is attached to a 
portion of the dentary bone, as shown in the accompan ou 
The length of this “dental plate i is 20 
mm., and the transverse diameter 11 mm. 
The species is the first Mesozoic Cerato- 
dus found in this spied aud hence of 
: much interest. It may be named Cerat- 
Ceratodus Giintheri. odus Giintheri, in aun of Prof. 
Natural size Giinther of the British Museum, The 
eam usc of this species is in the Atlantosaurus beds of 
ve 
upper Jurassic.— Communicated by the Author. 
' JV. Astronomy. 
The phish Meteors.— At my request, Messrs. Benjamin 
Vail and John P. Carr, students in the State University, kept 
watch last night for the November meteors. The earl part of 
the night was too cloudy for observations, but tefokS. ta o’clock 
this morning (the 14th) the sky had become quite clear. In one 
hour and fifty minutes—from 1.55 to 3.45—fifty-four meteors 
were oe gia by the two observers. is was at the rate of 
thirty per hour. Nearly all were Leonids—that is, the ee from 
which they radiated was in the constellation Leo. <A few of the 
number were as large as first magnitude ae and left trains 
which continued luminous for several seconds. e appearance, 
of so large a number ten or eleven years after the maximum dis- 
plays of 1866 and 1867 is — bigs gus 
Bloomington, November 14, 1 NIEL KIRKW 
2. On Schmidt's Nib Conae —Mr. Cin baad. in a taki to 
the Astronomische Nachrichten, Naty Lord Lindiay” *s Observatory 
at Dunecht, dated September 5, : “On September 2, 1877, 
ivi this star with the 1 siirich refractor of this observatory. 
tint, especially when viewed in the same field with the reddish star 
.+42° 4184 which it precedes by about 25% Viewed raed a 
low power eye-piece and a powerful direct vision prism, held be- 
tween the eye and the ee see ee light of the star was found to 
be absolutely monochrom e prism Browning spectro- 
scope with a slit, but wittiout a cylindrical gave a star-like 
image without a trace of continuous s A few hurried 
measures were all that esta be see hey indicated a wave- 
