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mean distance of 92,380,000 statute miles. From this results the 
ea 326800-+-1360 for the mass of the sum, (taking the mass d 
the earth as unity) and 1~(81:44+-0°33) for the mass of the moo 
The seg velocity of light would be 185,600 miles per sect 
3. Sn Yanets.—A. small planet @) was discovered y Dr. Lu- 
ihe ¥ Bik on the 23d of November. He has given it the name 
Arethusa, Another planet @) was discovered by Mr. Coggia at 
Mr. empel, at Marseilles, added another to the list ,@, Clotho, He 
requests discoverers of the next two planets to accept for them the 
names Lachesis and Atropos, that the three sister Parem may to- 
gether soumlens the first hundred (?) minor planets. 
on the announcement in the rye a “a Sciences at Paris 
by Mr. LeVerrier, of the discovery of the et @), exception was 
again taken by Mr, Delauna to th 
holding the names of the su bat ett in the government observa- 
ies by whom discoveries of planets and comets are made. He 
added that the discoverer bd planet @, Aegina, was Mr. Borelly. 
The scientific world will sustain Mr. Delaunay, probably without 
_ adissenting voice. 
___ Prof. Watson has given to the two planets discovered by him 
the names, Minerva for @, and Awrora for ®. 
V. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, 
expen ere is a very short water commu- 
nication between this nemo: and the Rio Tampico upon which 
A Mexican friend and e landed at the point just named and 
proceeded to ery the S route by which to conduct us to the 
Wells, He returned in about an ston bringing a handfull of thick 
black tar, of the ctnbiataniod of putty. e reported the path to 
over land everywhere swampy, a wiviaed us not to attempt to 
as we would be able to teach the locality only by wading 
= footed through marshes with very slippery bottom and beset 
| aa ot cbee and stubble undergrowth. Bat concluding to finish 
a ture, our boots, shoes, é&c., were left in the canoe, and with 
ean cracked scab of bitumen, ha beneath it an ash col- 
"s ored soapy clay chagend upon which it was Gikcnlt to stand or 
