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Ill. ASTRONOMY. 
regs was R. A.J h 30m, N. De el. 71°. 
3. Numbering 9 the Planetoids or Asteroidal Planets —In numberi ring 
the planetoids a difficulty has arisen from the fact discovered by Mr. 
soa pate that the planetoid detected by Mr. Goldschmidt, Sept. 9, 1857, 
mistaken for Daphne, is undoubtedly a different bo In the An- 
ee < 1859 of the French Board of Longitude, the planetoid detected 
all th 
pt. 9, 1857, is numbered (47), a ea the numbers o those subse- 
quently ibe is increased by on r. LeVerrier objects to this 
proceeding, on account of the per seg which it occasions, and maintains 
that the planetoid of Sept. 9, 1857, should be numbered (56). 
of numbering in the pos of fee and as likely on the whole to 
produce the least confusion 
. IV. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
a pet ga Strictures on North American Geologists—Mr. Marcou 
issued a pamphlet of 40 pages, purporting to be a reply to the two 
Pa ge on his North American Geology by James D. Dana. These two 
he has inserted, without any notice of it, nearly a page of matter from 
: Wwitho 
his book which the dea! did not quote. The pamphlet presents no 
new basis for his claims, a ‘ert jee no reply. We merely quote a 
single paragraph for sence as i n editorial bearing. It is intro- 
duced after citing Prof. js wee from page 134 of our last vol- 
ume, and is as follows: - 
“Mr. Dana’s love of the truth and duty to science obliged him to decline publishing 
this article i in my favor without and duty to sione 8, W. vate pe author pe ad to fnew not 
pieaien to pass under Mr. Dana’s editorial scissors; and Mr. bliged to 
wi 1 of his from thi ice odify 
o refusal on the sack Salts cate gabloh’ Prokaeoe 
Agassiz’ reply, and no proposition for editorial curtailment, but only ob- 
— to its views, and a request to delay the “ie because Prof. 
book 
sono wan ot. XXVIM, No. s2.—JULY, 1859. 
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