Miscellaneous Intelligence. 7 
There were moments in which for one or two seconds at a time 
of the observations were made. The comet was observed first on 
the 19th of September by daylight, two days after the perihelion 
passage. It was last seen on the 4th of April. Eight diagrams 
back toward the sun are all given in detail. H. A. N 
IV. Misce,tnAngeovus Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Report of the Superintendent of the U. S. Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey for 1882. Washington: Government Printing Of- 
fice. 1883. 4to, 565 pages and 52 plates.—This report has just 
been received from the Public Printer and is now ready for dis- 
tribution. As usual the first part of the volume is devoted to a 
statement of the progress made by the various branches of the Sur- 
vey in all parts of the country and shows that the work is being 
prosecuted with vigor and a discriminating regard for the require- 
ments of the country at large, and the necessities of those portions of 
ies ec base apparatus was constructed on a ae not 
