242 Scientific Intelligence. 



ing immersed, were themselves in turn assaulted. A number of 

 experiments were made which indicated that the bath had tempo- 

 rarily destroyed the peculiar odor or other propi rt \ !>y \ ii<'h the 

 insects recognized their fellows. 



The variety of F. rufi which had colonized in vast numbers on 

 the cliff w Rockland opposite the >te; nboat landing, as observed 

 for the last three summers, were found that morning to have 

 abandoned the place. No trace of them could be seen in the 

 vicinity. The crowds of human beings who occupied the spot 

 during the late hit 1 at na! regatta had < hi nt I v 'dispersed the 

 republic— Proc. Acad. Nat. >'.<•/. Philad., 1876, p. 200. 



6. The Rhynchophora of America, north of Mexico ; by Johx 

 L. LkCon i e. assisted by (jEOncifi I!. Iiou.v. 456 pp. 8vo, constitut- 

 ing vol. xv (December, 1876) of the Proceedings of the American 



I Society. 



7. A new Echidna (Tachyglossus) from New Guinea.— The 

 new species has its rostrum half longVr (the length about 4 

 inches) than either that of the species from southeastern Australia 

 <>r that lVoni Tasmania. It is named Ta,-ht/f/l;.ws liri'-'/itH by 

 Peters and Doria in a paper published at Genoa.— Mature, Jan. 18. 



IV. Astronomy. 



1. A New Planet; C. H. F. Peters. (From letters of January 

 --', ■ 1 " 1 L dat( i Livchfi. d Observatorv 4 Hamilton College, 

 Clinton, N. \'.)_ (>n the ! 7th instant, I saw a planet unknown 

 t" "^ m the position approximately of *>' :U'" 55 s of 11. -S., an<l 

 + 17" .""»•_> ■;' Dccl. ; bur th ■• weather thickened so that an accurate 

 p;-iti..n could not be obtained before hist night, when at ten 

 "(•lockrh, stranger was in 8 :io 2(r of It. A., and +1 7 42 Deck 

 ' us having not vet been fullv completed). Hence 

 th'.; motion was in four days 4 ' 35 3 and -11'. The magnitude I 

 estinias. 1 rh. Iti (Letter r Jan. 22.) 



From LeVerrier"> //,/// >;.., / . t . ,....<. :,,., ,j ,,f J am iar\ 12. just 

 received, I see that the planet I gave you notice of on the ^'l 

 had already been found at Toulouse, on January 10. 

 But through neglect somewhere, the usual notification by tele- 

 graph,— as has been customary between European and American 



But th 



pV 



opany has made a liberal concession —has 



I^!^ 6 ™ during recent years, and for which the Atlantic Cable 



(Letter of January ! 





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