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existence of the ring in the latter; but these images have not 
been sufficiently sharp to permit of successful photographic 
enlargement.” 
3. Moon’s Zodiacal Light ; note by E. S. Hotpen. From a 
letter to the Editors, dated Naval Observatory, Washington, 
+ February 4, 1378.—In your Journal for February, 1878, p. 
88, is a note by M. Trouvelot, on “the Moon’s Zodiacal Light,” in 
which he describes a conical luminous appendage about 4$° long, 
extended on both sides of the moon, which was seen by him April 
3, 1874, 
In this connection an observation of a similar phenomenon by 
Messier, in the Mémoires de l’ Académie Royale des Sciences, 1771, 
p. 434, is noteworthy. In this memoir, Messier gives a roug 
wood-cut of its appearance, from which its length on each side of 
the moon is shown to be about 24°. 
_ The condition of the sky, as described by Trouvelot and Mes- 
Sler, appears to have been the same. ; 
In the Comptes Rendus, July 2, 1877, p. 44, M. Hugo describes 
a similar phenomenon which he saw above the lunar dise, about 4° 
in length, and in this case, also, the sky appears to have been sim- 
ilarly affected. These are the only cases known to me. 
V. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Address of the President of the Royal Society, at the Anni- 
versary Meeting, November 30, 1877.—The first part of the ad- 
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the biological results, appeared to have quite come up 
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