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seen before the death of the Emperor Honorius. — (Marcellin.) 

 This event happened in August. 



423 [ii.] On December 14, a comet was seen near a and 

 /3 libra. — (Ma-tuoan-lin.) 



432. A comet was seen near a and 7 Leonis ; passing in the 

 vicinity of ft Leonis it disappeared near a Bootis. — (Ma-tuoan- 

 lin.) No moon given. 



436. On June 21 a comet was seen near it Scorpii. — 

 (Gaubil.) 



442. On November 1 a comet, without a tail, was seen in 

 the square of Ursa Major. It soon threw out a tail, and pass- 

 ing 6 Ursas Majoris, through Auriga, p and it Tauri, came to it 

 Ceti, and 7, 8, jj, Endami. It disappeared in winter. — (Ma- 

 tuoan-lin.) It appeared in December and remained visible for 

 several months. — (Marcellin; Idatius. Bpiscop. Ghron.) 



449. A comet appeared on November 11, near /3 Leonis. 

 — (Ma-tuoan-lin.) 



467. A comet resembling a trumpet was seen for periods of 

 from ten to forty days in the evening sky. — (Chron. Pasch.; 

 Theophanes, Chronographia, p. 99. Paris. 1655.) 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



BY W. B. TEGETMEIER. 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 



SCIENCE. 



The annual meeting of the British Association, held at New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne, during the end of August and commencement of 

 September, was one of the most successful in point of numbers and 

 financial results of any that has been held for some years. The 

 number of members actually attending amounted to 3356, of whom 

 1004 were ladies ; and the total receipts reached the sum of £3600. 

 From this the amount of £1750 has been granted for the purpose 

 of carrying on scientific inquiries during the next year. In the 

 inaugural address the president, Sir William Armstrong, recorded 

 the most important scientific discoveries of the past year, and in- 

 dicated the probable progress of science during the ensuing period. 

 The history of locomotion was traced from the date when the pack- 

 horses carried a load of three hundredweight from the coal-pit to 

 the shipping place on the Tyne, down to the present time, when the 

 locomotive engine conveys a load of 200 tons, at a cost of fuel 

 scarcely exceeding (hat of the corn and hay which the original 

 l^i^k-horso consumed in conveying three hundredweight an equal 

 distance 



The possible early exhaustion of our coal-mines, the source of 



