ca," with drawings, illustrating the following species, namely, Phyllogonium Norvegicum, Brid. (recently detected in Ohio); Fissidens minutulus, Sulliv.; F. exiguus, Sulliv.; Schistidium serratum, Hook. & Wils.; Aneura sessilis, Sulliv.; Marchantia disjuncta, Sulliv.; Notothylas valvata and N. orbicularis, Sulliv. Dr. Holmes, from the committee appointed at the meeting in March to report upon the case of Henry Safford, the young Vermont mathematician, stated, that, at the request of Professor Peirce, the drawing up of a full report had been deferred until the arrival of the boy in this vicinity, where he is expected to reside. Some interesting statements were made by Professor Peirce, from which it would appear that the mere calculating faculty is not by any means as remarkable in him as it was in Zerah Colburn, but that it is rather incidental, as a part of extraordinary reflective powers. S. P. Andrews, Esq., of Boston, and George Engelmann, M. D., of St. Louis, Missouri, were elected Fellows of the Academy. The following were elected Foreign Honorary Members of the Academy, viz. : Prof. Louis Agassiz, of Neuchatel, Switzerland. M. Edouard de Verneuil, of Paris. M. Joseph Decaisne, Professor at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY, FROM MAY TO AUGUST, 1846. Jomard. Seconde Note sur une Pierre gravée trouvée dans un Ancien Tumulus Americain. 8vo. pamph. Paris, 1845. From the Author. Catalogue of Stars, made under the Direction of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 4to. London, 1845. From the Association. Address at the Inauguration of the Honorable Edward Everett, as President of the University in Cambridge. 8vo. pamph. Boston, 1846. From President Everett. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Vol. IX. 8vo. Boston, 1846. From the Society. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg. 6 Serié.Sciences Naturelles, Tom. II., livr. 4-6, and Tom. 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Two hundred and eighty-seventh Meeting. November 3, 1846.-MONTHLY MEETING. The PRESIDENT in the chair. The thanks of the Academy were voted to the Hon. Daniel A. White, for his able, discriminating, and faithful delineation of the character of our late admired and much lamented President, and that a copy of the discourse be requested for the press. Dr. Henry J. Bigelow gave some account of a new process of inhalation employed by Dr. Morton, of Boston, to produce insensibility to pain during the performance of operations by the dentist and the surgeon. The President announced that the new volume of the Academy's Memoirs was ready for distribution to the Fellows. The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from M. Edouard de Verneuil, of Paris, acknowledging and accepting his election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy. Dr. George Engelmann, of St. Louis, Missouri, and Dr. Elisha Bartlett, of Lowell, likewise accepted their election as Fellows. Professor Peirce communicated the elements of an elliptic orbit of De Vico's fourth comet, which he has computed, by the method of least squares, from all the observations made by Mr. Bond, combined with De Vico's observation of the 20th of February, the Paris observations of the 2d, 5th, and 6th of March, and the Hamburg and Altona observations of the 12th and 15th of March. "Time of perihelion passage, March 5.54775, Greenwich M. S. T. Longitude of perihelion, 90° 27′ 18′′.8, Mean Equinox 1846.0. "The comparison of this orbit with observation gives the following differences between the observed and computed places. d. Feb. 20.26993 14 23 45.2 7 29 23.0+ 9.4+ 28.3 De Vico. N. 26.53907 15 6 29.5 3 19 16.7+ 19.0 March 1.28629 15 9 13.2 7 47 32.3. .41.1 4.8 5.710.11.6 Santini. 49 10.27.4 Carlini. 36.9. 0.215.5 Bond. 6.0+ 1.5 6.1 Bond. +3.5 5.1 Laugier. +4.2 5.32380 14 56 48 13 57 34 66 7.28305 14 45 66 27.7 Bond. 8 15 22 10 13.1 0.8 Laugier. 38.8 15 43 24.3. 2.70.2 Bond. 4.5 16 46 33.3+11.2 66 9.49542 14 26 66 10.50852 14 17 11.27924 14 9 21.5 22 11.51920 14 6 55.022 27 33.2+11.524.6 Bond. 12.27386 13 58 43.4 23 24 28.115.0+ 8.8 Santini. 12.30868 13 58 5.523 26 56.3 1.5+ 2.9 Rümker. 12.31213 13 58 12.50815 13 55 66 24.38502 10 53 37.4 36 33 20.9 3.6 1.2 Challis. 27.31119 9 58 42.939 14 20.2+7.3+ 6.1 Rümker. 30.341978 58 0.841 52 4.0 1.611.0 Rümker. 31.29079 8 38 31-842 39 47.3+5.5 10.1 Littrow. 31.31750 8 38 14-342 41 8.7+17.3+ 10.4 Rümker. |
