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Smith, Judge Kane was appointed to prepare an obituary notice of Chancellor Kent. Professor Kendall presented a communication from Mr. Walker, containing new elements for the planet Neptune. Prof. Kendall communicated the following elliptic elements of the planet Neptune, derived by Mr. S. C. Walker from a discussion of 689 observations, including those made by Lalande in 1795. The heliocentric co-ordinates for the mean equinox of January 1, 1847, are, x= y = · [9 9998769]. r. sin (v + 138 21 5213) [9.9662265]. r. sin (v +48 55 27.32) z= [9.5800962]. r. sin (v + 45 2 37.90) The four normal places used as the basis of these computations are given below, corrected for parallax, and refraction, but not for planetary aberration. They are referred to the mean equinox above mentioned. The perturbations of Neptune by all the other planets, were computed by Prof. Peirce, and have been applied to the elliptic places. 1795 1846 1847 1847 Mean time, Greenwich. Obs. Geo. P. A., May 9d.45256 Nov. 7d.0 April 60.0 Aug. 22d.0 A 213 39 34 18 327 49 50 24 331 49 45 65 331 19 13.71 D-11 34 36.21-13 34 21.65-12 9 17.82-12 24 7.55 v215 48 12.73 327 13 58.37 328 8 0.93 328 57 44.75 80+ 37.60 + 29.49 29.99042 29.98677 True ell. Rad. Vec., r 30.28772 Perturbations, Perturbations, 32.10+ 29.99441 31.29+ Sr+0.01207 + 0.01608 +0.01497 +0.01493 Computed Geo. R.A. A 213 39 32 32 327 49 53.16 331 49 44 82 331 19 13.95 Dec. D-11 34 34.89-13 34 20.42-12 9 20.47-12 24 7.56 Corr. Eph., Professor Tucker read a paper on "the Association of Ideas," in which, in conformity with his lectures formerly delivered in the University of Virginia, he maintained that all the phenomena of mental association were to be explained by that law, both of body and mind, by which each has a tendency to repeat its former acts; and that it is a necessary result of this law that proximity of time or place, resemblance, and contrast, are the principles of connexion between conjoined ideas. Professor Tucker further remarked, that there appeared to be some coincidence between his views of association and those of Sir William Hamilton in his recent edition of Reid's works, but the latter part of the note on this subject being omitted, by the carelessness of the binder, in the copy he had seen, the only one he believed in the city, he could not yet say how far Professor Hamilton's theory of association agreed with his own, and how far they differed. The Committee of Finance, by Mr. C. C. Biddle, made their annual report. ERRATUM. In the Proceedings, Vol. IV., No. 35, p. 269, the final character of the Wyandot numeral for five, should be inverted, INDEX. Alexander, Prof. S., contributions to Allen, Mr. T., on gas-wells of Kanawha, Antares, a double star, 202, 277. Calendar, perpetual, by Mr. M'Ilvaine, Cannon, bursting of, by Capt. Stockton, Capillarity, Prof. Henry on, 176. dent, 137. Apparatus for measuring base lines, 368. Chapman, Dr., resigns as vice-presi- Athenæum, proposition for new build- Athenian Institute, letter from, 254. Automaton speaking machine, 83. Bache, Prof. A. D., observations for Bache, Dr., resolutions on death of Mr. Bache, Major, map of Sandy Hook, 168. Bessel, M., on motions of Procyon and Bethune, Dr., on ethnology, 358. Biddle, Col., thanks to, for Encyclo- Bloomfield, Jos. E., articles returned to Boutelle, C. O, mathematical tables, Boyè, Dr., presents true nitric ether, 3 E Clitoris, diseases of, by Dr. Meigs, 129. Cohesion, Prof. Henry on, 56, 84. elements of, from Prof. Rumker, computations of Mauvais', 67—of Committees, standing, appointed, 39, Committee of finance, report, 92, 130, discharged from subject of taxes on publication, report, 8, 29, 56, Committees, special,- on hundredth anniversary, report on Prof. Henry's resolution, 4. on Prof. Loomis' account of two on instruments of astronomical ob- on Mr. Lea's communication on on Booth and Boyè's paper on hip. |