Astr onomy. 3 | 435 
Morris, Edward Norton, Esq., and Baron R. Osten Sacken. @ In 
terprise the State has expended over ten thousand dollars for 2500 
for their own distribution. Besides this issue, the work appears in three 
other editions, one of 500 copies for the benefit of the family of Dr. Harris, 
~ in superb style on tinted paper with the steel plates colored, at $5 
copy, and two cheaper editions, at $3.50 and $2.50 each. It deserves to 
d an extensive sale. , 
A few of the insects described still lack illustrations, among which may 
be mentioned the Angowmois grain moth (p. 499)—the Zurytoma Hordei 
(553)—the Cecidomyia culmicola (582)—and the wheat midge (592), 
which at this time is one of our most destructive insects. In the cases of 
the Aegeria exitiosa,' and the Cecidomyia destructor, a drawing of the 
female would have been more useful. 
It would add much to the convenience of reference to give on the steel 
*plates, under or near each figure, the Latin or English name of the insect 
reas or at least the page of the book where the description may 
ound, H. 
III, ASTRONOMY, 
atories. é _ 
2. Name for Asteroid (59).—Asteroid (59) was discovered by Mr. Cha- 
cornac at ot va tr of Paris, on the 12th of September, 1860. Ac- 
c8rding to established usage, it devolved upon Mr. Chacornac, or upon 
mention the number in order of discovery, attaching thereto the name 
of the discoverer. Mr. J. R. Hind of London, to whom we owe the dis- 
covery of ten of these bodies, took decided ground against the proposed 
innovation, as leading inevitably to confusion and useless trouble; ulti- 
mately causing a return, by general consent, to our 
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