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as been observed. He thinks that one of the essential causes 
to which it should be referred is the dryness of the air, which 
rapidly increases from the southern shore of the Caspian Sea to 
tion of the ethnographical labors of the expedition. - 
a 
Ant, XXXVII.—Correspondence of Prof. Jerome Nickles, of Nancy, 
France, dated Feb. 26th, 1860. 
. the 
. Ay Mf di. tribution of ae 
French Academy of Sciences, Publse meeting and fetes with the eulogy 
The | 
e following is a summary 
Prize for Astronomy.—This 
