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bear a considerable resemblance, to Comet I, B.C. 371; and it 
may possibly be its third return, a very brilliant comet having 
been seen in full daylight A. D. 363. 
Washington, Dec. 19, 1882. 
IV. MiscennaAneous Sctentiric INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Science—A new American weekly scientific Journal.—lt is 
announced that a new scientific journal will be shortly com- 
on the practical applications of mechanics and physics, discussions 
of the methods of teaching the natural and physical sciences, and 
of other topics of general interest. The name of the editor-in- 
chief, and the long list of names that has been published of those 
0 have promised to support this new journal is a guarantee 
that its standard of excellence will be high and that it sine! 
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skulls of two large mammals, as yet unknown to science. A 
prief account of one, in advance of the fuller publication, is given 
*Y the authors on page 223 of the last volume. 
Vo tn oceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences. 
ol. iii, Part 2, Pages 65-192, with 5 plates. 8vo. Daven- 
