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  2. ASTRONOMICAL. NEW COMETS.

    Sir—I forward to you an extract of a letter from Professor Schumacher, whcih I have received this morning:—" We have a new comet again, discovered by M. ...

    Article : 262 words
  3. PRODUCTIONS OF SICILY.

    A Palermo correspondent of the Gardener's Chronicle furnishes the following very interesting particulars of the state of agriculture and horticulture in that fertile island, which was once called "the granery of italy." In soil and ...

    Article : 1,840 words
  4. BOTANICAL RESEARCH AT THE CAPE.

    A pamphlet has lately issued from the press at the Cape of Good Hope, entitled "A List of South African Indigenous Plants used as Remedies by the Colonists of the Cape of Good Hope." It is from the pen of Mr L Pappe, a ...

    Article : 2,237 words
  5. SHOOTING STARS.

    The vast number of what are called shootingstars seen on every clear night from the 10th to the 20th of August, is not a little remarkable. They were dartings about in every direction, almost every minute. The ...

    Article : 85 words
  6. SOLAR PHENOMENA.

    Dear Sir—Your Obsrrver is come to hand, in which I see your correspondent, Mr Prouse, says he would be glad if any person could and would explain the phenomena which appeared to him on the 12th of February instant upon the ...

    Article : 744 words
  7. REMARKABLE SUNSET.

    Sir—We frequently read of the splendours of the setting sun when observed from a high mountain; but perhaps nothing ever has exceeded or will exceed the beautiful magic figures which that luminary assumed on Monday ...

    Article : 338 words
  8. MINES AND METALS. MINING.

    Mining appears to have been known and practised in Great Britain from the earliest period of our history, for the Carthagenians are said to have conveyed tin to Tyrefrom Cornwall; but in those early days the operations must ...

    Article : 326 words
  9. FIERY METEORS.

    Intelligence has been received from Prague of some extraordinary meteoric phenomena. "On the 14th July, about four o'clock in the morning, the inhabitants on several points of Northern Bohemia observed a fire-ball, ...

    Article : 891 words
  10. COPPER MINES IN ARABIA.

    A paper from Mr Carter, was read at the Asiatic Society, "On the Copper mines in the Island of Misseer[?], on the coast of Arabia," which he had been induced to search tor in consequence of receiving information that the ...

    Article : 304 words
  11. ROSSE'S TELESCOPE.

    The capacity of this instrument is wonderful. Such is its power that, if a star of the first magnitude were moved to such a distance that its light would be three millions of years in reaching us, this telescope would, ...

    Article : 253 words
  12. MINERALOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN IRELAND.

    Several remarkable mineralogical specimens are said to have been discovered in the Rochfort cutting, on the line of the Cork and Bandon Railway, near Innis Shannon. One of these contains native lead, iron, copper, ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. THE REVELATIONS OF ASTROFOMY.

    How few men really believe that they sojourn on a whirling globe, and that each day and year of life is measured by its revolutions, regulating the labour and repose of every race of being. How few believe that the great ...

    Article : 250 words
  14. DISCOVERY OF PLATINUM IN FRANCE.

    M. Gueymard has just informed the General Council of the Isere that he has discovered a vein of platinum in the metamorphic district of the valley of the Drar. which he hopes to work with advantage. Hitherto this ...

    Article : 77 words
  15. DEVONSHIRE SILVER.

    A short time since we called attention to the fact that Mr Ellis, silversmith, of this city. was in possession of a mass of silver which had been extracted from a mine in this county. He has now upwards of a thousand ounces ...

    Article : 71 words
  16. MINERALS OF KOORDISTAN.

    Dr O. P. Hubbard, professor of chemistry, Dart, mouth College, in a communication to Sillman's American Journal, described some mines of lead, sulphur, and orniment, which exist in the mountains, and are worked by the ...

    Article : 243 words
  17. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Rev. R. Wilson, of Greenock, has published a curious astronomical lecture, which is directed to prove two positions which do not tally with astronomical theories, viz.—First, that an oblate spheroid, moving in free and ...

    Article : 352 words
  18. THE NEW PLANET IRIS.

    Mr Bishop has fixed upon Iris as an appropriate name for the new planet discovered by Mr Hind and himself on the 13th August and hopes that astronomers generally will join in its adoption. ...

    Article : 40 words
  19. THE SATELLITE OF NEPTUNE.

    The following letter from Mr Lassell to the Times confirms his discovery of a satellite of Neptune. (See last and previous Literary Gazette.) Sir—I am happy to tie now able to give the fullest ...

    Article : 353 words
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  21. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Some new gold mines, it is reported, have been found in California. The mine of La Luz, in Guanaxuato, belonging to Don Perez Galvez, is yielding the extraordinary profit of ...

    Article : 73 words
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