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ac ual height o the animal. As the largest of these (viz. the Paris 
specimen, photographed for the Trustees of the British Museum by Mr. 
Fenton) stands five feet two inches in height, we are justified in conclud- 
ing that to be in all probability the extreme natural height of the full 
grown animal.— Atheneum, Sept. 14, p. 348. 
4. Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology.—The labors of Prof. 
Agassiz and the intelligent patronage of the Commonwealth of Massachu- 
setts in establishing the new Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cam- 
bride, have found an appreciative eulogist in Prof. Owen in his recent 
area is the same allotted at Cambridge to our new museum. 
marked this whole communication for extract, but cannot find space for 
it at present. Prof, Agassiz in a late letter says, “I am now hard at work 
perfecting the internal arrangement of the collections which begin to 
tgrow my strength. We want an addition to the present building 
larger than it is, for more than half the specimens on hand are not yet 
exhibited.” 
IV. ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY. 
the 17th of August. This planet has been named Niobe 
2. Ke-discovery of Pseudo-Daphne.— August 27, 1861, M. Gold- 
schmidt of Paris re-discovered the planet which he discovered Sept. 9, 
1857, and which has received the name of Pseudo-Daphne. The history 
of this planet is very remarkable. On the 22d of May, 1856, M. Gold- 
schmidt of Paris, discovered a new planet of the 11th or 12th ee 
tude. He observed it again on the 25th, but on neither occasion was 
- able to locate the planet accurately for want of suitable instruments. On 
the 31st it was observed at Marseilles; it was observed at Berlin, June 1, 
2, and 3d, and it was observed at Vienna, June 2d and 4th. The planet 
being now quite faint and difficult to observe, was no longer followed ; 80 
that the reliable observations only embrace an interval of four per! bes 
an ephemeris for the planet’s return to opposition in Sept. 1857. 
. Pape ‘of the Altona Observatory computed the best orbit he en 
able from these observations, and published an ephemeris for the ad eho“ 
ing opposition. Anticipating the difficulty of finding the planet, 
str ers at Oxford, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Altona and Bilk ag 
upon a joint search, each observer selecting a portion of the heaven 
which he would specially explore. 
