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visible till July 14. — (De Mailla, viii. 545.) On April 26 a 

 comet came from the constellations of the E. country. [These 

 are probably the seven first of the Chinese Zodiac, commencing 

 at a Virgmis. — P.] After fifty days it disappeared; on July 13 

 it reappeared in the Cross of Orion, and lasted fifteen days. — 

 (Ma-tuoan-lin), who adds that a comet was seen on June 4 

 (when the above one was still visible). Hind considers the 

 former to be certainly Halley's Comet, and that it passed P.P. 

 on April 29. 



1146. A comet was seen for a long time in the W. — (Chro- 

 nica Begia.) 



1147 [i.] The Emperor Conrad set out in May for 

 Palestine ; his departure was preceded by a comet. — (Historia 

 Episcojporum Virclunensium.) On February 8 a comet 10° long, 

 appeared in the E. for fifteen days. — (Gaubil.) On January 11 

 a comet came from the S.W. of a Aquarii and e, Pegasi. — 

 (Ma-tuoan-lin.) This writer says that another comet appeared 

 to the E. of the 1ST. region, near a and /3 Capricorni, on 

 February 17, and that it perished on March 5. 



1147 [ii.] About August 20 a comet was seen in Japan. — 

 (Kaempfer, ii. 4.) 



1152 or 1156. Ma-tuoan-lin the former, Gaubil and the 

 great annals of China the latter. On July 26 a comet 10° long 

 was seen in the feet of Gemini ; on the day Kouey-tcheou, or 

 August 2, it was near Geminorum. — (Gaubil.) On August 

 15 a comet was seen in the middle of Gemini; the next day it 

 was like Jupiter, and 2° long. On the day Kouey-tcheou, or 

 August 22, a comet passed near 0, r Geminorum. — (Ma-tuoan- 

 lin.) [No doubt the former date of August 2 is a misprint by 

 Pingre for August 22.] 



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Metamorphoses op Man and op the Lower Animals. Br A. 

 de Quatrefages, Meixibre de l'lastitute (Academie des Sciences), 

 Professeur du Museum de l'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Translated 

 by Henry Lawson, M.D., Professor of Physiology in Queen's Col- 

 lege, Birmingham, one of the Lecturers on Natural Science in the 

 Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Edu- 

 cation, etc. (Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly.) — In the second 

 volume of the Intellectual Observer, p. 95, will be found an 

 article entitled " The Origin and Transformation of Animals," 

 which was founded on the work of M. Quatrefages, which has lately 

 enjoyed the benefit of Professor Lawson's translation. We must 

 refer our readers to the article just mentioned for an exposition of 

 the character of this important book, which stands alone in its 



