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value of twenty Austrian ducats, is connected with the following 
conditions : 
(1.) Prizes are awarded only for the first eight successful dis- 
coveries of each calendar year; for comets that, at the time of 
their discovery, were telescopic, i. e., invisible to the naked eye, 
that had not been seen before by any other observer, and the 
c 
be supplemented at the next occasion by later observations. (4.) 
If the comet should not have been verified by other observers, 
the prize will be awarded only when the observations of the dis- 
coverer are sufficient for determining the orbit. (5. e prizes 
each year. If the first notice of the discovery a t 
the first March and the last May, the prize will be decided in the 
gene ay session of the Academy in the next year. ) 
Application for the prize is to be made within three months after 
e ews of the discovery has arrived at the Imperial Acad- 
emy. Later applications will not be considered. (7.) The 
astronomers of the observatory of the University at Vienna will 
be judges, whether the conditions contained in arts. 1,3 and 4 
have been fulfilled. ; 
3. Index Catalogue of Books and Memoirs relating to Nebule 
and Clusters, de. ; by Epvwarp S. Hotpey. Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, Washington, 1877. 8°, pp. ix and 111.—About half of this 
Holden is devoted to the catalogue 
: a list of books and 
memoirs relating to the nebula in Orion; a similar list of those 
Nebule and Clusters. 
V. MisceELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Telephone in England.—Col. W. H. Reynoxps has concluded 
a contract with the English Government by which the Post Office 
Department has. adopted the Bell telephone as a part of its tele- 
was heard through the telephone, and individual voices were dis- 
tinguished. This important experiment was conducted by Mr. J. 
Bourdeaux, of the Submarine Telegraph Company. very 
Successful experiments. were made with the telephone on Saturday 
