308 Setentific Intelligence. 
In the monograph of Resedacew there is no novelty to report. 
In Crassulacee only seven genera are left, Penthorum being trans 
ferred to Saxifragacee, Tilleea as well as -Rochea to Crassula, and 
Diamorpha reunited to Sedum 
Saxifragacee are remarkably treated, The order,—widened 
beyond all former limits by Bentham and Hooker, who included 
the Francoee, saints the Grossulariee and Ce; hulotus,—is now 
need b ; 2. Pterostemon, with seed ned 
to be copiously abuminous; 3. the Pittosporee ; 4. the Brun 
acer , amamelidece ; 6. Liquidambar and its allied 
to ied, not ay the Saururee, but © Chloranthea, it 
Ceratophyllum as an appendage ; the @ gener mre: as in a recent 
volume of the Prodromus. In Urtic we, the order is taken mr 
strict sense, and Weddell is quite implicitly followed. 
Ill Astronomy. 
1. On the Eclipse of the Sun on September 29th, 1875 ; by Rosest 
Treat Parne.* (Communicated to this Journal.)— —In the remait- 
der of this century there will be, in that large part of the United 
States north of North bebop and east of the Mississippi, only _ 
one central eclipse of the sun, viz., the one which will be ann ‘a 
in part of the State of New York and of four of the New Engl 
is is mentione 
1875 Sept. 29th, a rises three-fifths hea aces 55 56™ 30° mean time 
Fo ¢ 2 
rmation of the ring - 2 
Rupture of the ring, 6 22, ve ‘ 
End of the eclipse, 7 
With the aid of the English Nautical Almanac o _ (i 
which the places of the sun and moon are given according this 
recent and more accurate tables of Le Verrier and Hanse a), 6 ont 
eclipse has been lately recomputed for lat. 42° 99) 48”, long. 
40”, and will take place as follows: < 
* Mr. Paine states in a note to the editors :—My list of aii the solar erg 
Boston between 1824 and 1901, was computed in 1823 (the year oe 
college) when in my 19th ag Tt contains 30 Sains, of which 20 Feb 
place, all of which but two, I think, I have observed; four of them (Fe oo. 
Sept., 1838 ; May, 1854, ind Oot, 19m) annular, at Chatham, ©. ©. ; and 
Middlebury, Vt.; and Charleston, and two total: (Nov. 30th, vrei 
souess Pee 1869), at gre s. 0; sae Boonseboro, os and I ha rt + 1815) 
t I may observe here, ~ nular one © 
an yt "Gonads, the total one on July 29th, 18 
