392 Scientifie Intelligence. 
aurora of a very unusual splendor for the latitude was seen here 
on Sunday evening, February 4, 1872. The sky, extending in 
i ie Ss 
could be most distinctly traced. The streamers extended at about 
nine o’clock to the constellation Orion, and Sirius was well within 
here in October, 1870, but no such aurora as that of February 4, 
1872, appears to have been visible for at least fifty years. 1 
aurora was well seen over a large portion of the colony, and com 
siderably frightened the natives. oe 
5. A New Planet (118).—Dr. R. Luruer has discovered a minor — 
planet (118), Peitho, at Bilk. 
M. T. at Bilk. a 
1872. es eee ihe Se : a 
March 15, 14 18 59°6 R.A. = 12 7 26-73 N.P.D. = 79 42 335 
An observation made by Dr. Tietjen, at Berlin, is as follows: 
M. T. at Berlin. . 6 Roe 
1872. hy mi. 8 11 phe tea 90 461 
March 21, 9 33 23 R.A. = 12 1 36:36 N.P.D.= ce HE a 
The daily motion obtained from these observations is in a 
in N '45". The planet is of the eleven 4 
— 608-6, and in _— . 
magnitude.— Atheneum, March 30, 1872. 
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IV. MiscenLanrous Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
Siti 
1. Topography of the Punjab Oil Region ; by BENJAMIN OM" 
Mi ing sis : pp. 4to. (From the Trans. — 3 
Phil. Soc., vol. Xv, p. 1.)—The oil of this region, according t0 4 o 
on the oil. le 
The oil has been bored upon at Gunda, and at first sity 
five months), the daily yield was less than ten gallons. 
region, oil flows also at five other places from natt f it as 
from a gill to three quarts a day, and there are traces 0 a 
